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Hey Lukas, there are a few threads on this topic; there is no official announcement yet, so time will tell. But like you mentioned RKE2 allows users to use Traefik instead of nginx: • https://rancher-users.slack.com/archives/C01PHNP149L/p1763135593617219?thread_ts=1763134379.045199&cid=C01PHNP149L

thank you. probably, there will still be needed to migrate to gateway API, that traefik can handle as well but there are other options. I am just curious if we start some migration to be aligned with you guys 😉

There is no need to migrate to gateway API, ingress is not going anywhere

However, the Kubernetes world is moving toward the Gateway API and away from Ingress, so a transition will eventually be required. I would prefer to make that transition in a single step. Yes, many Helm charts still use only the NGINX‑style Ingress object. Luckily, Traefik can also emulate NGINX Ingress configuration (https://traefik.io/blog/transition-from-ingress-nginx-to-traefik) – it still needs a newer image than RKE offers, maybe at least 3.5.0, so it should be a reasonable replacement without any changes needed (need to check whether cert‑manager support for NGINX is emulated as well). The only concern remaining is performance; I found several comparison posts and they all agree that Traefik is significantly slower compared to NGINX.

Currently, Rancher 2.12 still has nginx as the only GUI option, is there any broad sense for when/if that will change?

Not really an RKE2 question, but Rancher. You can follow along here: https://github.com/rancher/dashboard/issues/15950