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Why does kube-proxy return 503 from /healthz while its node is being deleted?
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Answer: B. So load balancers supporting connection draining stop sending new connections
Failing the readiness check first lets a draining-capable load balancer finish existing connections and refuse new ones before the node is removed from its target set.
Source: Virtual IPs and Service Proxies (Kubernetes) — Traffic policies › External traffic policy