kubeconfig is the path to a KubeConfig file.

acceptContentTypes defines the Accept header sent by clients when connecting to a server, overriding the default value of ‘application/json’. This field will control all connections to the server used by a particular client.

contentType is the content type used when sending data to the server from this client.

qps controls the number of queries per second allowed for this connection.

burst allows extra queries to accumulate when a client is exceeding its rate.

enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface host:port/debug/pprof/

enableContentionProfiling enables block profiling, if enableProfiling is true.

leaderElect enables a leader election client to gain leadership before executing the main loop. Enable this when running replicated components for high availability.

leaseDuration is the duration that non-leader candidates will wait after observing a leadership renewal until attempting to acquire leadership of a led but unrenewed leader slot. This is effectively the maximum duration that a leader can be stopped before it is replaced by another candidate. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

renewDeadline is the interval between attempts by the acting master to renew a leadership slot before it stops leading. This must be less than or equal to the lease duration. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

retryPeriod is the duration the clients should wait between attempting acquisition and renewal of a leadership. This is only applicable if leader election is enabled.

resourceLock indicates the resource object type that will be used to lock during leader election cycles.

resourceName indicates the name of resource object that will be used to lock during leader election cycles.

resourceName indicates the namespace of resource object that will be used to lock during leader election cycles.

featureGates is a map of feature names to bools that enable or disable alpha/experimental features.

clientConnection specifies the kubeconfig file and client connection settings for the proxy server to use when communicating with the apiserver.

logging specifies the options of logging. Refer to Logs Options for more information.

hostnameOverride, if non-empty, will be used as the name of the Node that kube-proxy is running on. If unset, the node name is assumed to be the same as the node’s hostname.

bindAddress can be used to override kube-proxy’s idea of what its node’s primary IP is. Note that the name is a historical artifact, and kube-proxy does not actually bind any sockets to this IP.

healthzBindAddress is the IP address and port for the health check server to serve on, defaulting to “0.0.0.0:10256” (if bindAddress is unset or IPv4), or “[::]:10256” (if bindAddress is IPv6).

metricsBindAddress is the IP address and port for the metrics server to serve on, defaulting to “127.0.0.1:10249” (if bindAddress is unset or IPv4), or “[::1]:10249” (if bindAddress is IPv6). (Set to “0.0.0.0:10249” / “[::]:10249” to bind on all interfaces.)

bindAddressHardFail, if true, tells kube-proxy to treat failure to bind to a port as fatal and exit

enableProfiling enables profiling via web interface on /debug/pprof handler. Profiling handlers will be handled by metrics server.

showHiddenMetricsForVersion is the version for which you want to show hidden metrics.

mode specifies which proxy mode to use.

iptables contains iptables-related configuration options.

ipvs contains ipvs-related configuration options.

nftables contains nftables-related configuration options.

winkernel contains winkernel-related configuration options.

detectLocalMode determines mode to use for detecting local traffic, defaults to LocalModeClusterCIDR

detectLocal contains optional configuration settings related to DetectLocalMode.

clusterCIDR is the CIDR range of the pods in the cluster. (For dual-stack clusters, this can be a comma-separated dual-stack pair of CIDR ranges.). When DetectLocalMode is set to LocalModeClusterCIDR, kube-proxy will consider traffic to be local if its source IP is in this range. (Otherwise it is not used.)

nodePortAddresses is a list of CIDR ranges that contain valid node IPs. If set, connections to NodePort services will only be accepted on node IPs in one of the indicated ranges. If unset, NodePort connections will be accepted on all local IPs.

oomScoreAdj is the oom-score-adj value for kube-proxy process. Values must be within the range [-1000, 1000]

conntrack contains conntrack-related configuration options.

configSyncPeriod is how often configuration from the apiserver is refreshed. Must be greater than 0.

portRange was previously used to configure the userspace proxy, but is now unused.

bridgeInterface is a bridge interface name. When DetectLocalMode is set to LocalModeBridgeInterface, kube-proxy will consider traffic to be local if it originates from this bridge.

interfaceNamePrefix is an interface name prefix. When DetectLocalMode is set to LocalModeInterfaceNamePrefix, kube-proxy will consider traffic to be local if it originates from any interface whose name begins with this prefix.

maxPerCore is the maximum number of NAT connections to track per CPU core (0 to leave the limit as-is and ignore min).

min is the minimum value of connect-tracking records to allocate, regardless of maxPerCore (set maxPerCore=0 to leave the limit as-is).

tcpEstablishedTimeout is how long an idle TCP connection will be kept open (e.g. ‘2s’). Must be greater than 0 to set.

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.

tcpBeLiberal, if true, kube-proxy will configure conntrack to run in liberal mode for TCP connections and packets with out-of-window sequence numbers won’t be marked INVALID.

udpTimeout is how long an idle UDP conntrack entry in UNREPLIED state will remain in the conntrack table (e.g. ‘30s’). Must be greater than 0 to set.

udpStreamTimeout is how long an idle UDP conntrack entry in ASSURED state will remain in the conntrack table (e.g. ‘300s’). Must be greater than 0 to set.

masqueradeBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to use for SNAT if using the iptables or ipvs proxy mode. Values must be within the range [0, 31].

masqueradeAll tells kube-proxy to SNAT all traffic sent to Service cluster IPs, when using the iptables or ipvs proxy mode. This may be required with some CNI plugins.

localhostNodePorts, if false, tells kube-proxy to disable the legacy behavior of allowing NodePort services to be accessed via localhost. (Applies only to iptables mode and IPv4; localhost NodePorts are never allowed with other proxy modes or with IPv6.)

syncPeriod is an interval (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’) indicating how frequently various re-synchronizing and cleanup operations are performed. Must be greater than 0.

minSyncPeriod is the minimum period between iptables rule resyncs (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’). A value of 0 means every Service or EndpointSlice change will result in an immediate iptables resync.

syncPeriod is an interval (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’) indicating how frequently various re-synchronizing and cleanup operations are performed. Must be greater than 0.

minSyncPeriod is the minimum period between IPVS rule resyncs (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’). A value of 0 means every Service or EndpointSlice change will result in an immediate IPVS resync.

scheduler is the IPVS scheduler to use

excludeCIDRs is a list of CIDRs which the ipvs proxier should not touch when cleaning up ipvs services.

strictARP configures arp_ignore and arp_announce to avoid answering ARP queries from kube-ipvs0 interface

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 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 is the timeout value used for IPVS UDP packets. The default value is 0, which preserves the current timeout value on the system.

masqueradeBit is the bit of the iptables fwmark space to use for SNAT if using the nftables proxy mode. Values must be within the range [0, 31].

masqueradeAll tells kube-proxy to SNAT all traffic sent to Service cluster IPs, when using the nftables mode. This may be required with some CNI plugins.

syncPeriod is an interval (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’) indicating how frequently various re-synchronizing and cleanup operations are performed. Must be greater than 0.

minSyncPeriod is the minimum period between iptables rule resyncs (e.g. ‘5s’, ‘1m’, ‘2h22m’). A value of 0 means every Service or EndpointSlice change will result in an immediate iptables resync.

networkName is the name of the network kube-proxy will use to create endpoints and policies

sourceVip is the IP address of the source VIP endpoint used for NAT when loadbalancing

enableDSR tells kube-proxy whether HNS policies should be created with DSR

rootHnsEndpointName is the name of hnsendpoint that is attached to l2bridge for root network namespace

forwardHealthCheckVip forwards service VIP for health check port on Windows