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kube-proxy Configuration (v1alpha1)

Resource Types

KubeProxyConfiguration

KubeProxyConfiguration contains everything necessary to configure the Kubernetes proxy server.

FieldDescription
apiVersion
string
kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind
string
KubeProxyConfiguration
featureGates [Required]
map[string]bool
featureGates is a map of feature names to bools that enable or disable alpha/experimental features.
bindAddress [Required]
string
bindAddress is the IP address for the proxy server to serve on (set to 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces)
healthzBindAddress [Required]
string
healthzBindAddress is the IP address and port for the health check server to serve on, defaulting to 0.0.0.0:10256
metricsBindAddress [Required]
string
metricsBindAddress is the IP address and port for the metrics server to serve on, defaulting to 127.0.0.1:10249 (set to 0.0.0.0 for all interfaces)
bindAddressHardFail [Required]
bool
bindAddressHardFail, if true, kube-proxy will treat failure to bind to a port as fatal and exit
enableProfiling [Required]
bool
enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface on /debug/pprof handler. Profiling handlers will be handled by metrics server.
clusterCIDR [Required]
string
clusterCIDR is the CIDR range of the pods in the cluster. It is used to bridge traffic coming from outside of the cluster. If not provided, no off-cluster bridging will be performed.
hostnameOverride [Required]
string
hostnameOverride, if non-empty, will be used as the identity instead of the actual hostname.
clientConnection [Required]
ClientConnectionConfiguration
clientConnection specifies the kubeconfig file and client connection settings for the proxy server to use when communicating with the apiserver.
iptables [Required]
KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration
iptables contains iptables-related configuration options.
ipvs [Required]
KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration
ipvs contains ipvs-related configuration options.
oomScoreAdj [Required]
int32
oomScoreAdj is the oom-score-adj value for kube-proxy process. Values must be within the range [-1000, 1000]
mode [Required]
ProxyMode
mode specifies which proxy mode to use.
portRange [Required]
string
portRange is the range of host ports (beginPort-endPort, inclusive) that may be consumed in order to proxy service traffic. If unspecified (0-0) then ports will be randomly chosen.
udpIdleTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
udpIdleTimeout is how long an idle UDP connection will be kept open (e.g. '250ms', '2s'). Must be greater than 0. Only applicable for proxyMode=userspace.
conntrack [Required]
KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration
conntrack contains conntrack-related configuration options.
configSyncPeriod [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
configSyncPeriod is how often configuration from the apiserver is refreshed. Must be greater than 0.
nodePortAddresses [Required]
[]string
nodePortAddresses is the --nodeport-addresses value for kube-proxy process. Values must be valid IP blocks. These values are as a parameter to select the interfaces where nodeport works. In case someone would like to expose a service on localhost for local visit and some other interfaces for particular purpose, a list of IP blocks would do that. If set it to "127.0.0.0/8", kube-proxy will only select the loopback interface for NodePort. If set it to a non-zero IP block, kube-proxy will filter that down to just the IPs that applied to the node. An empty string slice is meant to select all network interfaces.
winkernel [Required]
KubeProxyWinkernelConfiguration
winkernel contains winkernel-related configuration options.
showHiddenMetricsForVersion [Required]
string
ShowHiddenMetricsForVersion is the version for which you want to show hidden metrics.
detectLocalMode [Required]
LocalMode
DetectLocalMode determines mode to use for detecting local traffic, defaults to LocalModeClusterCIDR

KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration

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KubeProxyConntrackConfiguration contains conntrack settings for the Kubernetes proxy server.

FieldDescription
maxPerCore [Required]
int32
maxPerCore is the maximum number of NAT connections to track per CPU core (0 to leave the limit as-is and ignore min).
min [Required]
int32
min is the minimum value of connect-tracking records to allocate, regardless of conntrackMaxPerCore (set maxPerCore=0 to leave the limit as-is).
tcpEstablishedTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
tcpEstablishedTimeout is how long an idle TCP connection will be kept open (e.g. '2s'). Must be greater than 0 to set.
tcpCloseWaitTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
tcpCloseWaitTimeout is how long an idle conntrack entry in CLOSE_WAIT state will remain in the conntrack table. (e.g. '60s'). Must be greater than 0 to set.

KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration

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KubeProxyIPTablesConfiguration contains iptables-related configuration details for the Kubernetes proxy server.

FieldDescription
masqueradeBit [Required]
int32
masqueradeBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to use for SNAT if using the pure iptables proxy mode. Values must be within the range [0, 31].
masqueradeAll [Required]
bool
masqueradeAll tells kube-proxy to SNAT everything if using the pure iptables proxy mode.
syncPeriod [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
syncPeriod is the period that iptables rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m', '2h22m'). Must be greater than 0.
minSyncPeriod [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
minSyncPeriod is the minimum period that iptables rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m', '2h22m').

KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration

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KubeProxyIPVSConfiguration contains ipvs-related configuration details for the Kubernetes proxy server.

FieldDescription
syncPeriod [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
syncPeriod is the period that ipvs rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m', '2h22m'). Must be greater than 0.
minSyncPeriod [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
minSyncPeriod is the minimum period that ipvs rules are refreshed (e.g. '5s', '1m', '2h22m').
scheduler [Required]
string
ipvs scheduler
excludeCIDRs [Required]
[]string
excludeCIDRs is a list of CIDR's which the ipvs proxier should not touch when cleaning up ipvs services.
strictARP [Required]
bool
strict ARP configure arp_ignore and arp_announce to avoid answering ARP queries from kube-ipvs0 interface
tcpTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
tcpTimeout is the timeout value used for idle IPVS TCP sessions. The default value is 0, which preserves the current timeout value on the system.
tcpFinTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
tcpFinTimeout is the timeout value used for IPVS TCP sessions after receiving a FIN. The default value is 0, which preserves the current timeout value on the system.
udpTimeout [Required]
meta/v1.Duration
udpTimeout is the timeout value used for IPVS UDP packets. The default value is 0, which preserves the current timeout value on the system.

KubeProxyWinkernelConfiguration

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KubeProxyWinkernelConfiguration contains Windows/HNS settings for the Kubernetes proxy server.

FieldDescription
networkName [Required]
string
networkName is the name of the network kube-proxy will use to create endpoints and policies
sourceVip [Required]
string
sourceVip is the IP address of the source VIP endoint used for NAT when loadbalancing
enableDSR [Required]
bool
enableDSR tells kube-proxy whether HNS policies should be created with DSR

LocalMode

(Alias of string)

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LocalMode represents modes to detect local traffic from the node

ProxyMode

(Alias of string)

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ProxyMode represents modes used by the Kubernetes proxy server.

Currently, three modes of proxy are available in Linux platform: 'userspace' (older, going to be EOL), 'iptables' (newer, faster), 'ipvs'(newest, better in performance and scalability).

Two modes of proxy are available in Windows platform: 'userspace'(older, stable) and 'kernelspace' (newer, faster).

In Linux platform, if proxy mode is blank, use the best-available proxy (currently iptables, but may change in the future). If the iptables proxy is selected, regardless of how, but the system's kernel or iptables versions are insufficient, this always falls back to the userspace proxy. IPVS mode will be enabled when proxy mode is set to 'ipvs', and the fall back path is firstly iptables and then userspace.

In Windows platform, if proxy mode is blank, use the best-available proxy (currently userspace, but may change in the future). If winkernel proxy is selected, regardless of how, but the Windows kernel can't support this mode of proxy, this always falls back to the userspace proxy.

Last modified February 17, 2021 at 8:44 PM PST: Add kube-proxy config reference (0d7d7470dd)