Issue with my ingress resoruce - all hosts are taken by other resources

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My issue: all hosts are taken by other resources

How I encountered the problem: I am migrating my ingress-nginx service to nginx-f5. I have changed the class name and annotations properly. But when I apply I am getting the issue like **‘**all hosts are taken by other resources’

Warning Rejected nginx-ingress-controller All hosts are taken by other resources

Solutions I’ve tried: I have set the annotation allowduplicatehosts to true. But still not working

Version of NIC and/or NGINX:

app.kubernetes.io/instance: nginx-f5
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
app.kubernetes.io/name: nginx-ingress
app.kubernetes.io/version: 5.3.2
helm.sh/chart: nginx-ingress-2.4.2

Deployment environment: kubectl get ingress | grep rajdev

rajdev-example-spark nginx-f5 raj.example.com.dev 80, 443 3d6h
rajdev-ie-entry-data-ws nginx-f5 raj.example.com.dev 13.82.15.125 80, 443 3d6h

For once resource, address is resolved but for other it is giving error. I have many ingress resources that are pointing to default namespace and i dont want to put different namespaces. Please suggest the solution

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Hi @rajasekhar.yannam , thanks posting this issue. This has been answered in a previous AMA with the team; see here.

TLDR; this can be solved by using the following annotation nginx.org/mergeable-ingress-type: "master".

Example:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: cafe-ingress-master
  annotations:
    nginx.org/mergeable-ingress-type: "master"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - cafe.example.com
    secretName: cafe-secret
  rules:
  - host: cafe.example.com

and the Ingress Minion can be configured using the following:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: cafe-ingress-tea-minion
  annotations:
    nginx.org/mergeable-ingress-type: "minion"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - host: cafe.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /tea
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: tea-svc
            port:
              number: 80

Heres a link to the offical docs: Ingresses Path Matching Using Path-Regex Annotation | NGINX Documentation

Let me know if this solves your issue.

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Hi Sean_Moloney, Thank you for your prompt response. Actually, I have tried this option but this option is not feasible for my ingress resources as I am using complex annotations. Is there any alternate approach could you please kindly propose?

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Hey @rajasekhar.yannam ,No problem.

would you mind sharing some of your YAML configurations and annotations?

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Hi @Sean_Moloney , Please see below two ingress resources i have provided.

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    meta.helm.sh/release-name: rajdev
    meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
    nginx.org/proxy-connect-timeout: "300"
    nginx.org/proxy-read-timeout: "300"
    nginx.org/proxy-send-timeout: "300"
    nginx.org/rewrite-target: /$1
  creationTimestamp: "2026-02-03T05:31:24Z"
  generation: 9
  labels:
    app: ie-point-data-ws
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
    chart: ie-point-data-ws-4.3.1-dev.6_ad77ead
    heritage: Helm
    release: rajdev
  name: rajdev-ie-point-data-ws
  namespace: default
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx-f5
  rules:
  - host: dev.us.monte.train
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: rajdev-ie-point-data-ws
            port:
              number: 8080
        path: /rajdev/point-data/(.*)
        pathType: Prefix
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - dev.us.monte.train
    secretName: cert

Another Ingress resorice

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    meta.helm.sh/release-name: rajdev
    meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
    nginx.org/rewrite-target: /$1
    nginx.org/use-regex: "true"
  creationTimestamp: "2026-02-03T05:31:24Z"
  generation: 6
  labels:
    app: dse-spark
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: Helm
    chart: dse-spark-4.2.1-dev.3_e33f9b5
    heritage: Helm
    release: rajdev
  name: rajdev-dse-spark
  namespace: default
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx-f5
  rules:
  - host: dev.us.monte.train
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          service:
            name: rajdev-dse-spark
            port:
              number: 7080
        path: /rajdev/dse-spark/(.*)
        pathType: Prefix
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - dev.us.monte.train
    secretName: cert

Like this, I have other 20+ Ingress resorices with multiple ingress annotations. Please kindly let me know if any other details required.

Thank you for your kind help.

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Please refer to the list of annotations that support mergeable ingress: kubernetes-ingress/examples/ingress-resources/mergeable-ingress-types at main · nginx/kubernetes-ingress · GitHub. Are there any particular annotations for which you would like help?

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hi @Sean_Moloney @hshannon , Thank you for your help. Actually, I have fixed the host collison issue using meegeable-ingress-types. But after I merge all the resources, Now I am getting 404 error for my UI. I did not see any information or error message in my pod logs or ingress. Could you please help what could be the possible scenarios or where can i go and check further?

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@rajasekhar.yannam sorry to hear you are still having issues, can you share what your setup looks like now that you are using the meegeable-ingress-types?

Sean

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hey @rajasekhar.yannam , can you check if all the Ingresses are in Normal state or they don’t have any nginx error or warning messages ? If all is good then check NIC pod logs and see if the upstream is sending 404 or not.

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