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Ingress-NGINX

Kubernetes ingress controller using NGINX

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Ingress-NGINX is the community-maintained Kubernetes ingress controller built on NGINX. It routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to services inside a cluster using ingress resources.

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Key features

  • NGINX-based ingress
  • TLS termination
  • Path and host routing
  • Annotations for fine control

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Battle-tested at scale
  • Wide community adoption
  • Flexible annotation system

Trade-offs

  • Upstream development stopped
  • Annotation config sprawl

Is Ingress-NGINX secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Ingress-NGINX's latest release (controller-v1.15.1). OSV.dev lists 20 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-4342, published 2026-03-19 (209 days ago), fixed in 1.13.9, 1.14.5

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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