<p>I think the question has most of the information.  If I have a Service that is a ClusterIP Service, and a Pod accesses that Service, since the load balancing is built into the routing table, are the routing rules smart enough to prefer traffic to the local Node?  Is there a way to configure it so that the traffic does prefer (or even be forced) to go to the local Node?</p>
<p>Reasoning - I'm thinking about running a caching server as a DaemonSet, which makes sense if traffic is likely to go to a local Pod.</p>

<p><a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#internal-traffic-policy" rel="nofollow noreferrer">internalTrafficPolicy</a> is probably what you are looking for.</p>
