Accessing k8s apiclient is successful without using a proxy, as follows: configuration = client. Configuration() configuration.verify_ssl = False configuration.host = "xxx" configuration.api_key = {"authorization": "Bearer " + self.token} c = api_client. ApiClient(configuration=configuration) api = core_v1_api.CoreV1Api(c) # Query the namespace, the step is successful result = api.list_namespace() However, since k8s api is automatically generated, the socks proxy cannot be directly set:https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python/issues/1064 Since k8s uses restClient, there is no way to pass the socks5 proxy. Currently, this method is used to connect, but it is invalid: configuration = client. Configuration() configuration.verify_ssl = False configuration.api_key = {"authorization": "Bearer " + self.token} configuration.host = "xxx" c = api_client. ApiClient(configuration=configuration) proxy = "socks5://xxx:1080" c.rest_client.pool_manager = self.build_socks_proxy_manager(configuration) api = core_v1_api.CoreV1Api(c) # Query namespace, this step timed out, unable to connect result = api.list_namespace() def build_socks_proxy_manager(self, configuration, pools_size=4, maxsize=None): # skip some initialization steps return SOCKSProxyManager(num_pools=pools_size, maxsize=maxsize, cert_reqs = cert_reqs, ca_certs=ca_certs, cert_file=configuration.cert_file, key_file=configuration.key_file, proxy_url=configuration.proxy, **addition_pool_args) Updated based on larsks answer: configuration = client. Configuration() configuration.verify_ssl = False configuration.api_key = {"authorization": "Bearer " + self.token} configuration.host = "xxx" c = api_client. ApiClient(configuration=configuration) proxy = "socks5://xxx:1080" c.rest_client.pool_manager = SOCKSProxyManager(proxy_url=proxy) api = core_v1_api.CoreV1Api(c) # Query namespace, this step still timed out, unable to connect result = api.list_namespace() Continue reading...