Support for controlling the IPMode of services of type LoadBalancer (Kubernetes version 1.30 or later)

When Kubernetes Engine provisions an OCI load balancer or network load balancer for a Kubernetes service of type LoadBalancer, you can now specify how to route traffic originating from within a cluster to the load balancer's or network load balancer's IP address.

In clusters running Kubernetes version 1.30 or later, the LoadBalancerIPMode Kubernetes feature gate is enabled, and the ipMode field of a service of type LoadBalancer has the default value of "VIP". You can now use the oci.oraclecloud.com/ingress-ip-mode annotation to specify whether the ipMode field is set to "VIP" or "proxy".

For more information, see Specifying IPMode to adjust traffic routing.