# Extend Service IP Ranges

> Kubernetes clusters with kube-apiservers that have enabled the MultiCIDRServiceAllocator feature gate and have the networking.k8s.io/v1 API group active, will create a ServiceCIDR object that takes the well-known name kubernetes, and that specifies an IP address range based on the value of the --ser

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Kubernetes clusters with kube-apiservers that have enabled the MultiCIDRServiceAllocator feature gate and have the networking.k8s.io/v1 API group active, will create a ServiceCIDR object that takes the well-known name kubernetes, and that specifies an IP address range based on the value of the --service-cluster-ip-range command line argument to kube-apiserver.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```sh
kubectl get servicecidr
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME         CIDRS          AGE
kubernetes   10.96.0.0/28   17d
```

The well-known kubernetes Service, that exposes the kube-apiserver endpoint to the Pods, calculates the first IP address from the default ServiceCIDR range and uses that IP address as its cluster IP address.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```sh
kubectl get service kubernetes
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME         TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    &lt;none&gt;        443/TCP   17d
```

The default Service, in this case, uses the ClusterIP 10.96.0.1, that has the corresponding IPAddress object.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```sh
kubectl get ipaddress 10.96.0.1
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME        PARENTREF
10.96.0.1   services/default/kubernetes
```

The ServiceCIDRs are protected with , to avoid leaving Service ClusterIPs orphans; the finalizer is only removed if there is another subnet that contains the existing IPAddresses or there are no IPAddresses belonging to the subnet.

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