Understanding Kube-proxy & CoreDNS in Kubernetes no bluff

Source: Dev.to | Jan 22, 2026 (UTC)

Kube-proxy is one of the vital component of Kubernetes that does the load balancing of services across the endpoints of your application. It utilizes Linux Ip tables to map the service to its backend endpoints. More when you see it in action.

I have spun up a 3 node kind cluster, now lets dig in to understand how Kube-proxy actually works.

I have one deployment running backed by a ClusterIP service