Enhancement Description

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

Remove kube-proxy's automatic clean up logic

• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal:

Remove any clean up functionality in kube-proxy that is done automatically/implicitly.
More concretely, kube-proxy should only attempt to clean up its proxy rules when the --cleanup flag is set.

• Discussion Link:
• Primary contact (assignee): @vllry @andrewsykim
• Responsible SIGs: sig-network
• Enhancement target (which target equals to which milestone):
  • Alpha release target (x.y):
  • Beta release target (x.y):
  • Stable release target (x.y):
• Alpha
  • KEP (k/enhancements) update PR(s):
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Implementation History

• 2019-03-14: initial bug report was created where kube-proxy would flush iptable chains even when the proxy mode was iptables

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