Author: Dan Winship (Red Hat) Some Kubernetes components (such as kubelet and kube-proxy) create iptables chains and rules as part of their operation.These chains were never intended to be part of any Kubernetes API/ABI guarantees, but some external components nonetheless make use of some of them (in particular, using KUBE-MARK-MASQ to mark packets as needing to be masqueraded). As a part of the v1.25 release, SIG Network made this declaration explicit:that (with one exception), the iptables chains that Kubernetes creates are intended only for Kubernetes’s own internal use, and third-party components

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