In this setup, i would like to focus on kubernetes 1.32 to 1.33 migration to see if endpoints that has been created automatically gets migrated to endpoint slices. And then upgrading it to 1.33, As you can se below, i have my cluster provisioned in 1.32 and has some endpoints automatically created. Then i will attempt to upgrade it. I have installed istio and then added an ingress gateway. And then i have: And finally And then i proceed to delete endpoint and run my kubectl port-forward svc, it still works. But also noticed that endpoint are re-created again