diff --git a/cmd/k8s-operator/depaware.txt b/cmd/k8s-operator/depaware.txt
index 77739350b..8718127b6 100644
--- a/cmd/k8s-operator/depaware.txt
+++ b/cmd/k8s-operator/depaware.txt
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ tailscale.com/cmd/k8s-operator dependencies: (generated by github.com/tailscale/
      💣 github.com/modern-go/reflect2                                from github.com/json-iterator/go
         github.com/munnerz/goautoneg                                 from k8s.io/kube-openapi/pkg/handler3+
         github.com/opencontainers/go-digest                          from github.com/distribution/reference
-        github.com/pires/go-proxyproto                               from tailscale.com/ipn/ipnlocal
+        github.com/pires/go-proxyproto                               from tailscale.com/ipn/ipnlocal+
         github.com/pkg/errors                                        from github.com/evanphx/json-patch/v5+
         github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib                        from k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/diff
    D    github.com/prometheus-community/pro-bing                     from tailscale.com/wgengine/netstack
diff --git a/cmd/k8s-proxy/k8s-proxy.go b/cmd/k8s-proxy/k8s-proxy.go
index e00d43a94..38a86a5e0 100644
--- a/cmd/k8s-proxy/k8s-proxy.go
+++ b/cmd/k8s-proxy/k8s-proxy.go
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@
 	"tailscale.com/tsnet"
 )
 
+const (
+	// proxyProtocolV2 enables PROXY protocol v2 to preserve original client
+	// connection info after TLS termination.
+	proxyProtocolV2 = 2
+)
+
 func main() {
 	encoderCfg := zap.NewProductionEncoderConfig()
 	encoderCfg.EncodeTime = zapcore.RFC3339TimeEncoder
@@ -441,24 +447,16 @@ func setServeConfig(ctx context.Context, lc *local.Client, cm *certs.CertManager
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error getting local client status: %w", err)
 	}
-	serviceHostPort := ipn.HostPort(fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s:443", name.WithoutPrefix(), status.CurrentTailnet.MagicDNSSuffix))
+	serviceSNI := fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s", name.WithoutPrefix(), status.CurrentTailnet.MagicDNSSuffix)
 
 	serveConfig := ipn.ServeConfig{
-		// Configure for the Service hostname.
 		Services: map[tailcfg.ServiceName]*ipn.ServiceConfig{
 			name: {
 				TCP: map[uint16]*ipn.TCPPortHandler{
 					443: {
-						HTTPS: true,
-					},
-				},
-				Web: map[ipn.HostPort]*ipn.WebServerConfig{
-					serviceHostPort: {
-						Handlers: map[string]*ipn.HTTPHandler{
-							"/": {
-								Proxy: "http://localhost:80",
-							},
-						},
+						TCPForward:    "localhost:80",
+						TerminateTLS:  serviceSNI,
+						ProxyProtocol: proxyProtocolV2,
 					},
 				},
 			},
diff --git a/k8s-operator/api-proxy/proxy.go b/k8s-operator/api-proxy/proxy.go
index cbcad1582..acc7b6234 100644
--- a/k8s-operator/api-proxy/proxy.go
+++ b/k8s-operator/api-proxy/proxy.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/pires/go-proxyproto"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets"
 	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/endpoints/request"
@@ -150,10 +151,18 @@ func (ap *APIServerProxy) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 		}
 	} else {
 		var err error
-		proxyLn, err = net.Listen("tcp", "localhost:80")
+		baseLn, err := net.Listen("tcp", "localhost:80")
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("could not listen on :80: %w", err)
 		}
+		proxyLn = &proxyproto.Listener{
+			Listener:          baseLn,
+			ReadHeaderTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
+			ConnPolicy: proxyproto.ConnPolicyFunc(func(opts proxyproto.ConnPolicyOptions) (proxyproto.Policy,
+				error) {
+				return proxyproto.REQUIRE, nil
+			}),
+		}
 		serve = ap.hs.Serve
 	}