The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source F5 NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term @devcentral
The Ingress NGINX Alternative: Open Source F5 NGINX Ingress Controller for the Long Term  @devcentral
Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
With the announced retirement of the community kubernetes/ingress-nginx project, it is time to move to a long-term, supported alternative. In this video, I demonstrate a zero-downtime, side-by-side migration to the F5 NGINX Ingress Controller.

We cover how to translate your existing configurations—specifically Path Rewrites and Load Balancing Algorithms—from the community annotation to the F5 NGINX community annotation.

📄 STRATEGIC BLUEPRINT (Official NGINX Blog):https://blog.nginx.org/blog/the-ingress-nginx-alternative-open-source-nginx-ingress-controller-for-…

💻 GET THE CODE (GitHub Repository):github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress

Notes:
- Contributed by: Akash Ananthanarayanan
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