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Validate IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack — Validate Services

Create the following Service that does not explicitly define .spec.ipFamilyPolicy.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Create the following Service that does not explicitly define .spec.ipFamilyPolicy. Kubernetes will assign a cluster IP for the Service from the first configured service-cluster-ip-range and set the .spec.ipFamilyPolicy to SingleStack. Use kubectl to view the YAML for the Service. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get svc my-service -o yaml ``` The Service has .spec.ipFamilyPolicy set to SingleStack and .spec.clusterIP set to an IPv4 address from the first configured range set via --service-cluster-ip-range flag on kube-controller-manager. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: my-service namespace: default spec: clusterIP: 10.0.217.164 clusterIPs: - 10.0.217.164 ipFamilies: - IPv4 ipFamilyPolicy: SingleStack ports: - port: 80 protocol: TCP targetPort: 9376 selector: app.kubernetes.io/name: MyApp sessionAffinity: None type: ClusterIP status: loadBalancer: {} ``` Create the following Service that explicitly defines IPv6 as the first array element in .spec.ipFamilies. Kubernetes will assign a cluster IP for the Service from the IPv6 range configured service-cluster-ip-range and set the .spec.ipFamilyPolicy to SingleStack. Use kubectl to view the YAML for the Service. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get svc my-service -o yaml ``` The Service has .spec.ipFamilyPolicy set to SingleStack and .spec.clusterIP set to an IPv6 address from the IPv6 range set via --service-cluster-ip-range flag on kube-controller-manager. Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: labels: app.kubernetes.io/name: MyApp name: my-service spec: clusterIP: 2001:db8:fd00::5118 clusterIPs: - 2001:db8:fd00::5118 ipFamilies: - IPv6 ipFamilyPolicy: SingleStack ports: - port: 80 protocol: TCP targetPort: 80 selector: app.kubernetes.io/name: MyApp sessionAffinity: None type: ClusterIP status: loadBalancer: {} ``` … Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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