diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.service b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.service
index a7dcb83372f..8b11a323737 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.service
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-proxy/kube-proxy.service
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Documentation=https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes
 EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/kube-proxy
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/kube-proxy "$DAEMON_ARGS"
 Restart=on-failure
+LimitNOFILE=65536
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/contrib/init/systemd/kube-proxy.service b/contrib/init/systemd/kube-proxy.service
index 829cd8a0cb9..7b95755d53e 100644
--- a/contrib/init/systemd/kube-proxy.service
+++ b/contrib/init/systemd/kube-proxy.service
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/bin/kube-proxy \
 	    $KUBE_ETCD_SERVERS \
 	    $KUBE_PROXY_ARGS
 Restart=on-failure
+LimitNOFILE=65536
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target