Enabling Topology Aware Hints

Topology Aware Hints enable topology aware routing with topology hints included in EndpointSlices. This approach tries to keep traffic close to where it originated from; you might do this to reduce costs, or to improve network performance.

• Play with Kubernetes

Your Kubernetes server must be at or later than version 1.21. To check the version, enter .

• Ensure that you have not disabled EndpointSlices

To enable service topology hints, enable the for the kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, and kube-proxy:

• Read about Topology Aware Hints for Services