**70% of Kubernetes clusters will go dark in March 2026 when ingress-nginx support officially ends. Are you ready?**
Today's Platform Engineering Playbook dives deep into the massive ingress-nginx migration that's about to impact millions of Kubernetes workloads. We'll break down your migration options, timeline, and practical steps to avoid the chaos.
**What You'll Learn:**
✅ Why ingress-nginx is ending support and what it means for your clusters
✅ Complete migration strategies from early adopter teams
✅ Step-by-step playbook for platform engineering teams
✅ Alternative ingress controllers and their trade-offs
**Episode Chapters:**
0:00 Cold Open - The ingress-nginx crisis
2:30 Welcome & Today's Platform Engineering News
5:15 Deep Dive: The ingress-nginx EOL situation
12:45 Migration analysis and real-world experiences
**Plus:** Pulumi's distributed work scheduling system architecture, observability platform migration strategies with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes AI inference updates, and SRE database connectivity troubleshooting frameworks.
Perfect for platform engineers, DevOps teams, and anyone managing Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.
**Sources & References:**
- The End of kubernetes/ingress-nginx: Your March 2026 Migration Playbook: https://medium.com/@housemd/kubernetes-ingress-nginx-eol-march-2026-the-complete-migration-guide-to-replace-ingress-nginx-e8f6e118fb5f
- How We Built a Distributed Work Scheduling System for Pulumi Cloud: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/how-we-built-a-distributed-work-scheduling-system-for-pulumi-cloud/
- Observability platform migration guide: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Fluent Bit: https://thenewstack.io/observability-platform-migration-guide/
- Kubernetes WG Serving concludes following successful advancement of AI inference support: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/02/26/kubernetes-wg-serving-concludes-following-successful-advancement-of-ai-inference-support/
- A Unified Framework for SRE to Troubleshoot Database Connectivity in Kubernetes Cloud Applications: https://feeds.dzone.com/link/23568/17283905/sre-database-connectivity-troubleshooting-kubernetes
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