Kube Proxy

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In this section, we will take a look at kube-proxy.

Within Kubernetes Cluster, every pod can reach every other pod, this is accomplish by deploying a pod networking cluster to the cluster.

Kube-Proxy is a process that runs on each node in the kubernetes cluster.

Install kube-proxy - Manual

Download the kube-proxy binary from the kubernetes release pages kube-proxy. For example: To download kube-proxy v1.13.0, Run the below command.
```
$ wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.13.0/bin/linux/amd64/kube-proxy
```
Extract it
Run it as a service

View kube-proxy options - kubeadm

If you set it up with kubeadm tool, kubeadm tool will deploy the kube-proxy as pod in kube-system namespace. In fact it is deployed as a daemonset on master node.
```
$ kubectl get pods -n kube-system
```

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