Consolidating to Cilium: Replacing kube-proxy, MetalLB, and ingress-nginx in Three Phases
In March 2026, ingress-nginx reached end-of-life. For clusters already running Cilium as their CNI, this is the right moment to go all-in: replace kube-proxy, MetalLB, and ingress-nginx with Cilium's built-in equivalents — ending up with a single networking component doing the work of four.