How to configure trafficDistribution for PreferClose option?

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Thanks a lot! This was the piece I was missing. Although I have already read this page before I didn’t notice that the topology-mode annotation needs to be turned on to make trafficDistribution work.

So, after adding this annotation to the service:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: svc-prefer-close
  namespace: test
  annotations:
    service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode: auto
spec:
  ports:
    - name: http
      protocol: TCP
      port: 8080
      targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: service-traffic-example
  type: ClusterIP
  trafficDistribution: PreferClose

the load-balancing works as a charm (all of the request are being redirected to single worker pod in my case).

Thanks again!

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