This blog introduces a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.29. It provides a configurable approach to define how Service implementations, exemplified in this blog by kube-proxy, handle traffic from pods to the Service, within the cluster. Background In older Kubernetes releases, the kube-proxy would intercept traffic that was destined for the IP address associated with a Service of type: LoadBalancer. This happened whatever mode you used for kube-proxy. The interception implemented the expected...