<p>I work in a company where almost all private ipv4 space is already used, so using 10.254.0.0/16 for service address space is a non-starter.  I have carved out a /64 of ipv6 space that I can use, but I can't seem to make it work.</p>

<p>Here's my apiserver config:</p>

<pre><code># The address on the local server to listen to.
KUBE_API_ADDRESS="--address=::"

# The port on the local server to listen on.
KUBE_API_PORT="--port=8080"

# Port kubelets listen on
KUBELET_PORT="--kubelet-port=10250"

# Address range to use for services
# KUBE_SERVICE_ADDRESSES="--service-cluster-ip-range=10.254.0.0/16"
KUBE_SERVICE_ADDRESSES="--service-cluster-ip-range=fc00:dead:beef:cafe::/64"

# Add your own!
KUBE_API_ARGS=""
</code></pre>

<p>But when I try to start <code>kube-apiserver.service</code> I get an error about "invalid argument".  Is it possible to use IPv6 for kubernetes? </p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/1443" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I don't think IPv6 is fully supported</a>. I don't think there is a strong motivation among the developers of the project to add IPv6 support, because the largest group of contributors is <a href="http://stackalytics.com/?project_type=kubernetes-group&amp;metric=commits" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google employees</a>. Google Compute Engine (and thus Google Container Engine) doesn't support IPv6, so it wouldn't benefit Google directly to pay their employees to support IPv6. Best thing to do would probably be to pull in employees of companies that run their hosted product on AWS (as AWS has IPv6 support) such as RedHat, or try to contribute some of the work yourself.</p>

<p>From the linked PR, it looks like Brian Grant (Google) is, for whatever reason, somewhat interested and able to contribute IPv6 support. He'd probably be a good resource to query if you're interested in contributing this functionality to Kubernetes your self.</p>
