At the node level, the system is managed by Kubernetes K8s, whereas, at the master level, the system is managed by GKE. The master operates and runs the Kubernetes API server, core resources controllers and the scheduler.

Even though the kube-proxy resides within the node, the cluster is responsible for the kube-proxy, and, please bear in mind that in GKE the cluster master is inaccessible.

While it is possible to configure the proxy in Kubernetes k8s, it is not possible to do so in GKE.

For the daemonset, please make sure that you are looking through all namespaces.

$ kubectl get ds --all-namespaces