Enhancement Description

• One-line enhancement description (can be used as a release note):

Make kube-proxy service abstraction optional

• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal:

In a cluster that has a service mesh a lot of the work being done by kube-proxy is redundant and wasted.
Specifically, services that are only reached via other services in the mesh will never use the service abstraction implemented by kube-proxy in iptables (or ipvs).
By informing the kube-proxy of this, we can lighten the work it is doing and the burden on its proxy backend.

• Discussion Link:
• Primary contact (assignee): @bradhoekstra @thockin
• Responsible SIGs: sig-network
• Enhancement target (which target equals to which milestone):
  • Alpha release target (x.y):
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  • Stable release target (x.y):
• Alpha
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Implementation History

• 2018-10-17 - This KEP is created
• 2018-11-12 - KEP updated, including approver/reviewer

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