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// BetaAnnotationExternalTraffic is the beta version of AlphaAnnotationExternalTraffic. BetaAnnotationExternalTraffic = "service.beta.kubernetes.io/external-traffic" ) <del> // NeedsHealthCheck Check service for health check annotations func NeedsHealthCheck(service *api.Service) bool { // First check the alpha annotation and then the beta. This is so existing // Services continue to work till the user decides to transition to beta. // If they transition to beta, there's no way to go back to alpha without // rolling back the cluster. for _, annotation := range []string{AlphaAnnotationExternalTraffic, BetaAnnotationExternalTraffic} { if l, ok := service.Annotations[annotation]; ok { if l == AnnotationValueExternalTrafficLocal { return true } else if l == AnnotationValueExternalTrafficGlobal { return false } else { glog.Errorf("Invalid value for annotation %v: %v", annotation, l) } } } return false } // GetServiceHealthCheckNodePort Return health check node port annotation for service, if one exists func GetServiceHealthCheckNodePort(service *api.Service) int32 { if !NeedsHealthCheck(service) { return 0 } // First check the alpha annotation and then the beta. This is so existing // Services continue to work till the user decides to transition to beta. // If they transition to beta, there's no way to go back to alpha without // rolling back the cluster. for _, annotation := range []string{AlphaAnnotationHealthCheckNodePort, BetaAnnotationHealthCheckNodePort} { if l, ok := service.Annotations[annotation]; ok { p, err := strconv.Atoi(l) if err != nil { glog.Errorf("Failed to parse annotation %v: %v", annotation, err) continue } return int32(p) } } return 0 } </del>

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Sorry, I have found the issue, I had a setup where the none of the node names were the same as the hostname of the kube-proxy pod and this caused the issue, where none of the Pods running on a hosts were recognised as local pods. I have fixed this issue by manually setting the hostname with in kube-proxy. However I still insist that this error message is misleading and shouldn't be printed in case of NodePort type services, but only for just LoadBalancers.
I met the same problem in the aws cloud providers, by adding - the hostname-override to solve this problem. good