How to deal with port-forward timeouts

[atgreen]

My k8s is timing out port-forwards, which is annoying for sly debugging. Of course, this is configurable at the kubelet layer, but it would be nice to figure out a way to support users who don't have this level of access. Exposing 4005 via nodeport or similar also seems bad because of the lack of auth.

[atgreen]

My timeouts didn't come from openshift. They were from the haproxy load balancer in front of ocp api server. My haproxy was configured thusly...

    timeout connect         5s
    timeout client          30s
    timeout server          30s

Setting tunnel and client-fin timeouts appear to solve the problem:

    timeout connect         5s
    timeout client          30s
    timeout server          30s
    timeout client-fin      30s
    timeout tunnel          1h # timeout for use with oc port-forward