2026-09-20
Daily Tech Challenge
You start the command below on your laptop, then hit the two URLs shown with plain curl - no client certificate, no bearer token - and both succeed. What is kubectl proxy actually doing?
$ kubectl proxy --port=8001 & Starting to serve on 127.0.0.1:8001 $ curl http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/prod/pods $ curl http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/prod/services/web:80/proxy/healthz
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