Preserving source IP address

Introduction

This guide explains how to preserve the client's source IP address for requests going to your cluster.

This is useful when you want to allow requests only from a defined IP range, or track client IPs for analytics.

Preserving Client's Source IP Address

On your Service of type LoadBalancer, add the uses-proxyprotocol annotation:

		$ kubectl annotate service my-service load-balancer.hetzner.cloud/uses-proxyprotocol="true"