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Ingress-NGINX Retirement on RKE2: Migrating to Traefik Without Downtime

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500

The Kubernetes community announced in November 2025 that Ingress-NGINX is being retired. Best-effort maintenance ended in March 2026, and there are no more releases, bug fixes or security patches from upstream. RKE2 shipped ingress-nginx as its default ingress controller until v1.36, so most existing RKE2 clusters still run it.

This post walks through the practical side of migrating RKE2 clusters from ingress-nginx to Traefik. The emphasis is on running both controllers side-by-side so you can migrate gradually without taking production offline.

Secure Secret Management: Setting Up HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500

Discover how to set up HashiCorp Vault on Kubernetes, integrating it with External Secrets to manage your application secrets securely.

RKE2 Ingress-NGINX: Troubleshooting and 2026 Retirement

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500

RKE2 ships the Ingress-NGINX controller as a packaged Helm chart, which makes it easy to run and easy to misconfigure. This guide covers where it lives on an RKE2 node, how to fix the common 404, 502 and TLS errors, a working HelmChartConfig, metrics and Grafana, and what the 2026 retirement of upstream ingress-nginx means for RKE2 clusters.

Ingress NGINX Controller on DOKS: Retirement, Gateway API, and Traefik

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This page used to describe Ingress NGINX on DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS). Ingress NGINX is now retired, and DOKS ships a managed Gateway API implementation, so the known good design has changed.

Ingress NGINX Controller on EKS: Retirement and Migrating to Traefik

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

This page used to describe Ingress NGINX on Amazon EKS. Ingress NGINX is now retired, so the known good design for a self-managed ingress controller on EKS is Traefik behind a Network Load Balancer created by the AWS Load Balancer Controller.

Ingress NGINX Controller on RKE2: Retirement and the Traefik Default

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500

RKE2 used to ship the Ingress NGINX Controller as its built-in ingress. That project is now retired, and RKE2 v1.36 deploys Traefik by default on new clusters. This page covers the current known good design for ingress on RKE2 and how to move existing clusters off ingress-nginx.

Troubleshooting k8s Ingress: Ingress-Nginx and Traefik

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0500

In the world of Kubernetes (k8s), setting up and maintaining Ingress controllers like Ingress-Nginx and Traefik is crucial for managing external access to your cluster’s services. However, troubleshooting these can be a daunting task. This post aims to simplify that process, offering practical solutions for common issues faced with k8s Ingress, especially in a Rancher-managed environment.