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In March 2026 the Kubernetes project retired ingress-nginx with no replacement waiting in the wings. Roughly half of all clusters still run it. This post is the migration that does not involve a flag day: how to inventory your annotations, what ingress2gateway 1.0 translates and what it silently drops, the side-by-side cutover pattern with the actual PromQL, and how to pick between Envoy Gateway, kgateway, Cilium Gateway, and Istio.