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A Highly Available Egress Gateway for Kubernetes with Cilium and kube-vip

A Highly Available Egress Gateway for Kubernetes with Cilium and kube-vip

Cilium's Egress Gateway gives your pods a static, routable identity for outbound traffic — but it won't manage that IP for you. Here's how to combine it with kube-vip to get a dynamic, BGP-announced, highly available egress IP.

Consolidating to Cilium: Replacing kube-proxy, MetalLB, and ingress-nginx in Three Phases

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.