Modern Kubernetes applications leveraging VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) demand agility but many enterprises still rely on multi-vendor ingress solutions that create operational silos and drive up complexity. This fragmentation increases costs, reduces efficiency, obscures visibility into applications while bolt-on security leaves gaps in protection. To address these challenges, organizations must adopt a unified ingress strategy that integrates performance, security, and automation at scale.
It is also worth noting that the Kubernetes project announced the retirement of the Ingress NGINX Controller. This leaves many Kubernetes ingress installations without a supported path forward and gives customers only a few months to migrate to an alternative solution. While the retirement of Ingress NGINX is disruptive, it can also become a catalyst for modernizing Kubernetes ingress. To make this transition easier, we are introducing Avi Conversion Tool (ACT) to migrate NGINX ingress and annotation to Avi Gateway API.
For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers using VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS), VMware Avi Load Balancer (Avi) offers a superior and unified Kubernetes ingress solution. This represents a major architectural improvement over legacy and open-source technologies, simplifying operations by removing the need for separate ingress tools and mitigating the risks associated with alternatives.
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