Kubernetes And IPv6: Together At Last?
Cloud Native Now, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
As administrators migrate their clusters from Ingress NGINX, which is being retired from the Kubernetes line-up next month, they might want to consider adding another task to their job: migrating their network to IPv6.
If they don't have enough IPv4 addresses on hand, they may find difficulty in going through a side-by-side migration deployment to get everything over to the replacement Gateway API.
Not that IPv6 would be simpler to deploy, but it could be the better long-term solution.
This year at FOSDEM, Ole Mathias Heggem, a Norwegian DevOps consultant at Redpill Linpro, made a case that now is the time to consider using IPv6 on Kubernetes.
Heggem is an admitted IPv6 fanboy: He has used IPv6 since 2013, boasting of having ASN and a /29 block of IPv6 to run his home network.