Understanding the Future of Ingress-nginx

The presentation discusses the complexity of managing the Ingress Nginx project and the roadmap for future developments.

• The Ingress Nginx project is complex and requires extensive testing and maintenance
• The project includes multiple container images, static configurations, annotations, and configuration options
• The roadmap includes a data plan control plane split and the addition of new features such as Open Telemetry
• Users are encouraged to test new releases and provide feedback to ensure stability
• The CH root environment was added to address a CVE vulnerability and will be removed once the CPDP split is complete

The presenter gives a shoutout to Alvin from Shopify for implementing the Lua functionality in Ingress Nginx, but notes that maintaining the Lua code is a burden without more developers. The project requires extensive testing and maintenance due to its complexity, and users are encouraged to provide feedback to ensure stability.

In this talk, we will present the survey results from our Ingress-nginx community survey. The survey's goal was to know what we should be doing for future releases and how to prioritize features, bugs, or other issues important to the community. The ingress-nginx project is undergoing a stabilization project as well. This stabilization project has worked to increase the security, review and deprecate older features, and fix long-standing issues with the project. We will examine the current status of the stabilization project and invite community members and users to join us to discuss the future of the ingress-nginx project.