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On November 11, 2025, the Kubernetes community announced the end of Ingress NGINX. The project that had been the de facto standard for routing traffic to Kubernetes workloads for years is retiring in March 2026. No new releases, no bugfixes, no security patches. For me, this meant one thing: time to migrate. Why Ingress NGINX is Shutting Down The story behind the retirement is actually quite sad. Despite its enormous popularity, the project was maintained for years by just one or two volunteers working in their spare time, on evenings and weekends....
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Building a Scalable Kubernetes Network Architecture with Cilium, BGP, and L2 Announcements Introduction When I began setting up my Kubernetes cluster’s networking infrastructure, I faced a common but challenging problem: how to efficiently manage a limited public IP range while maintaining a clear separation between public and private services. I had a small /29 subnet (X.X.55.89/29) for public services, which meant I needed to be extremely conservative with IP usage. This constraint led me to develop a hybrid networking solution that combines Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for public services with Layer 2 (L2) announcements for private services....
Preparation Steps Before starting the upgrade, create an etcd backup: talosctl -n 10.122.0.10 etcd snapshot etcd.backup Cluster Configuration My starting point is a Talos cluster with one control plane and four worker nodes: Control Plane: control-01 10.121.0.10 Workers: node01 10.121.0.11 node02 10.121.0.12 node03 10.121.0.13 node04 10.121.0.14 Initial Environment Starting Talos version: 1.6.1 Target Talos version: 1.9.2 Initial Kubernetes version: 1.29.0 Target Kubernetes version: 1.31.5 Hardware: Bare-metal Machine Architecture: amd64 Factory Image Creation Visit https://factory....