Socat is the default implementation for Kubernetes port-forwarding [1] when using dockershim for the kubelet runtime. Similar to how tar is used as the default

Socat is the default implementation for Kubernetes port-forwarding [1] when using dockershim for the kubelet runtime. Similar to how tar is used as the default Kubernetes cp command implementation. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/770d3f181c5d7ed100d1ba43760a74093fc9d9ef/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/docker_streaming_others.go#L42 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/770d3f181c5d7e...