What sort of encryption and authentication can I expect if I do that? Can anybod...

e12e · on Feb 25, 2020

This is entirely to hard to find the answer to in the kubernetes/kubectl documentation. Apparently the forward is done via socat over tls:

And socat is mentioned in:

I didn't actually manage to find out what or how socat is called - but I'm also on mobile, so it's a little convoluted to browse source code.

Anyone know where the call to socat happens, after kubectl port-forward?

simiones · on Feb 26, 2020

The encryption and authentication that the Lisp image exposes :)

Someone else mentioned that kubectl port-forward also adds these for you, so if you are not in a private cluster, it may be a better option.