With the March 2026 retirement of Ingress NGINX, teams face an urgent compliance mandate. They must replace unpatched controllers.
Enter Higress. Built on Envoy and Istio. It unifies LLM protocols, enforces token rate limits, caches prompts, hosts MCP, and uses xDS for zero-downtime.
An AI agent paired with higress-wasm-go-plugin audited 60+ Ingresses. It mapped NGINX annotations, generated WASM plugins, and validated migration inside Kind - all in 30 minutes.
