kubernetes/ingress-nginx
Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #591 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 21%).
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 208 days ago, with 408 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #55 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 1, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
- Provides seamless integration with Kubernetes for managing external access to services with robust load balancing and routing.
- Use for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing in Kubernetes clusters to expose multiple services under a single IP.
- Use for implementing advanced load balancing and SSL termination for microservices deployed in Kubernetes environments.
- Use for automating ingress resource management in Kubernetes to simplify deployment and scaling of web applications.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- Warning: Archived on GitHub: read-only, with no further fixes or releases.
- No commits in the last six months (last push Mar 2026).
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From the README
ingress-nginx is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer.
See the Getting Started document.
Do not use in multi-tenant Kubernetes production installations. This project assumes that users that can create Ingress objects are administrators of the cluster. See the FAQ for more.
If you encounter issues, review the troubleshooting docs, file an issue, or talk to us on the #ingress-nginx channel on the Kubernetes Slack server.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
8.6K-18
Open issues
348+0
Compared with peers in Kubernetes
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project-HAMi/HAMi | 4.8K | +199 | 75 | 56 days ago |
| seaweedfs/seaweedfs | 35.7K | +152 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| google/gvisor | 19.7K | +140 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| traefik/traefik | 65.4K | +133 | 75 | 4 days ago |
| ys-ll/uniterm | 881 | +106 | 75 | 5 days ago |
| kubernetes/ingress-nginx | 19.5K | +0 | 75 | 208 days ago |
| Category median | 19.7K | +140 | 75 | — |
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