Service/model retirement

ingress-nginx retired no further security fixes Kubernetes maintained release charts images available

An upgrade/security task cannot find a maintained new release despite charts/images remaining available.

KubernetesContainer orchestrationService/model retirementk8s_136

Agent Quick Fix

Repair against the current Kubernetes contract, then keep the change narrow and source-backed.

Product: Kubernetes
Current-contract area: Ingress-NGINX retired with no further security fixes
Likely root cause: An upgrade/security task cannot find a maintained new release despite charts/images remaining available.
Repair direction: Verifier checks migration to the supported successor and preservation of key behavior/data. Check resource behavior after apply, not only schema acceptance.

Symptom

An upgrade/security task cannot find a maintained new release despite charts/images remaining available.

Why This Happens

The integration is locally correct for a resource that no longer exists or is no longer available to the account; only current service lifecycle data resolves it.

Common Wrong Fixes

  • Changing local code without checking the current external contract.
  • Retrying the same install, build, or API call with no version/source change.
  • Applying a broad unsafe bypass when a narrow compatibility fix is available.

Codex Search Keywords

These are the search terms observed in a neutral Codex validation run for this failure shape.

ingress-nginx retired no further security fixes Kubernetes maintained release charts images available
Kubernetes ingress-nginx end of life retired security fixes
site:kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx retired security fixes
"ingress-nginx" "retired"
ingress-nginx maintenance status Kubernetes 2026
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx
'Best-effort maintenance' in https://www.kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/

Source Trail

GitHub source file/reference: