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Is NGINX Gateway Fabric compatible with Kubernetes 1.37?
NGINX implementation of Gateway API. Technical specifications list a Kubernetes minimum for each minor. That page is not a tested-minor matrix.
Technical specifications list 2.8.1, the latest 2.8 patch shown, as Kubernetes 1.32+. Gateway API 1.6.3. The page does not list which minors were tested.
Technical specifications say only the latest patch of each minor is shown. NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.8.1 and 2.7.2 list Kubernetes 1.32+. 2.6.8 and 2.5.1 list Kubernetes 1.31+. 2.8.1 also lists Gateway API 1.6.3. A separate page covers Gateway API feature compatibility.
Version grid
| NGINX Gateway Fabric | 1.31 | 1.32 | 1.33 | 1.34 | 1.35 | 1.36 | 1.37 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 · current | Not supported | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum |
| 2.7 | Not supported | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum |
| 2.6 | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum | Meets published minimum |
Empty-looking “not in the published matrix” cells were not listed by the project. They are not a guess that the combination fails.
Notes
Helm chart name is nginx-gateway-fabric. Images named on the technical specifications page include ghcr.io/nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric and ghcr.io/nginx/nginx-gateway-fabric/nginx. This project is not the ingress-nginx controller and not the F5 NGINX Ingress controller.
Sources
- Technical specifications (opens in a new tab)
- Gateway API compatibility (opens in a new tab)
- README (opens in a new tab)
Last checked 2026-11-15. Latest GitHub release v2.8.1 (opens in a new tab) (2026-11-03).
Project site: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-gateway-fabric/ (opens in a new tab)
Managed Kubernetes end of support
Addon compatibility is not the same as the platform’s support window. End-of-support dates for the managed services are on EOL Radar: Amazon EKS (opens in a new tab), Azure AKS (opens in a new tab), Google Kubernetes Engine (opens in a new tab).