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NGINX Gateway Fabric 2.0 has released! Follow these instructions to upgrade from 1.x to 2.0.

For 1.x, checkout an older version of documentation.

Control plane configuration

Data plane configuration

Upgrade applications without downtime

Scaling the control plane and data plane


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