NGINX Open Source Community

ingress-nginx is being retired by CNCF in March 2026. Now’s the time to plan your transition. A strong alternative is the open-source NGINX Ingress Controller maintained by F5: - Actively developed - Apache 2.0 licensed - Familiar NGINX configuration - Supports canaries, JWT, mTLS, and more - Smooth path to Gateway API Learn more from this blog: blog.nginx.org/blog/the-ingre…

AI agents hate messy HTML. This Community-created NGINX module serves clean Markdown at the proxy—no CMS rewrites required. Built in Rust, it shows a smarter way to make web content machine‑readable. Read more. blog.nginx.org/?p=74870

📢 Happening now at #AppWorld2026: a live AMA on WebAssembly (Wasm)! Join us at the Community Hub to ask your questions and chat about how Wasm is shaping the future of modern applications. #WebAssembly #Wasm #CloudNative

ingress-nginx is retiring, NGINX Ingress Controller is not. There's a lot of confusion out there - naming, alternatives, migration. This CNCF webinar sorts it all out 👇 go.f5.net/cncfwebinar-in…

Happening now - join us to discuss NGF development, hear community updates, share feedback, or receive help with your technical questions and configs. Link to event: community.nginx.org/t/nginx-gatewa…

Starting soon! The NGINX Gateway Fabric community meets weekly to discuss project updates, the roadmap, and ongoing development. First-time attendees are especially encouraged! TODAY: 9:30am PT | 12:30pm ET | 17:30 GMT Event link: community.nginx.org/t/nginx-gatewa… #nginx #gatewayapi #ngf

Happening now: NGINX Gateway Fabric Community Meeting 🔗 go.f5.net/an0ke3a2 If you have a use case for NGINX Gateway Fabric that the project can’t quite meet yet, bugs, problems, success stories, or just want to be more involved with the project, come by and say hi!

The biweekly NGINX Ingress Controller Community Call starts soon. Join us to discuss PRs and Issues, roadmaps, and more. 🔗 go.f5.net/y4hiqjev 📆 Mon, Dec 15 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 16:00 GMT

nginx-1.29.3 and nginx-1.29.4 mainline versions have been released as a pair, featuring HTTP/2 to backend and Encrypted ClientHello. 🔗 go.f5.net/0trztljm Highlights include: • HTTP/2 upstream support • TLS observability & handshake efficiency • Encrypted Client Hello for privacy • Stricter chunked encoding for security • Header inheritance control • TLS certificate compression (BoringSSL/AWS-LC) #NGINX #opensource

Live AMA happening now! Our second live Q&A session about migrating from ingress-nginx is happening until 10:30 EST / 15:30 GMT. Great questions are rolling in, come add yours too. go.f5.net/nuhl79y5

Do you know someone who consistently shares knowledge, inspires collaboration, and drives technical excellence in the F5 community? 👑 Nominate someone for the 2026 cohort of DevCentral MVPs today and help us recognize those who make a real impact: go.f5.net/pg0t2jn2

Great questions are rolling in, come add yours to!

⏰ Live AMA is starting NOW! Join us on the NGINX Community Forum to ask us anything. We're particularly excited to answer questions about migrating from ingress-nginx and our open source NGINX Ingress Controller. 🗓️ We'll be live tomorrow too from 14:00-15:30 GMT. 🔗 go.f5.net/6wcml6fe #NGINX #ingress #opensource #ama

⏳ 24 hours until our first Live AMA session begins! Add your questions in advance or join us to get answers in-real-time. We're excited to cover the roadmap for open source NGINX Ingress Controller, help you assess migration options from ingress-nginx, provide technical support, and more. 🔗 go.f5.net/3du7uael #NGINX #IngressController #ku

The NGINX Gateway Fabric Community Meeting starts shortly! Don’t miss insights from the team and a chance to influence the roadmap. We discuss open PRs and Issues every week too. ⏰ Tuesdays at 9:30am PT/17:30 GMT (weekly) Join the call here: go.f5.net/aa5u05a0 #NGINX #GatewayAPI #OpenSource

Quantum computing will break RSA and ECC. NGINX is testing Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to keep TLS secure in a quantum future. Explore the engineering details and what’s next for open-source web servers: 🔗 go.f5.net/fy9fdcbp #NGINX #TLS #PQC #QuantumSafe

Thinking about migrating from ingress-nginx to the open source NGINX Ingress Controller? Join our live AMA sessions on Dec 10–11 to ask about the roadmap, migration options, technical details, and anything else (with in reason!) 🔗 go.f5.net/7qluoy24 #Kubernetes #NGINX #AMA

The NGINX Gateway Fabric Community Meeting starts shortly! Don’t miss insights from the team and a chance to influence the roadmap. We discuss open PRs and Issues every week too. ⏰ Tues. Dec 1, 9:30am PT/17:30 GMT (weekly) Join the call here: go.f5.net/9lw5syan #NGINX #GatewayAPI #OpenSource

The AMA thread is already open on the NGINX Community Forum. No worries if you can't make it live - you can add your questions in advance and upvote others. We’re ready for you! 🔗 go.f5.net/95x8foz7

ICYMI: Don’t miss our AMA next week about ingress-nginx migration. Our product and engineers working on Open Source NGINX Ingress Controller and Open Source NGINX Gateway Fabric will be answering your questions about migrating from ingress-nginx, sharing roadmaps, and more. 🔗 go.f5.net/95x8foz7

We’re stuffed with ideas to share at the table and the future is looking gravy. It's a treat to be birds of a feather with you all. All puns aside, we couldn’t do this without community. What are you grateful for this year? We'd love berry much to hear 💚

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at NGINX! 🥧 🦃 We’re deeply thankful for the incredible NGINX community—and honored to be part of it too. A huge shoutout to the maintainers, contributors, and enthusiasts across all open source projects: your dedication truly powers the world.