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Jun 2, 2023 · Cloud Native

Why kube-proxy Causes Traffic Imbalance and How to Fix It in Kubernetes

This article explains why kube-proxy’s default iptables load-balancing can cause traffic imbalance during rolling updates, round-robin scheduling, and autoscaling, compares ipvs with iptables, and offers practical best-practice recommendations such as using source-hash scheduling and layer-7 proxies to achieve more even load distribution in Kubernetes clusters.