Is this a request for help? (If yes, you should use our troubleshooting guide and community support channels, see http://kubernetes.io/docs/troubleshooting/.):
No

What keywords did you search in Kubernetes issues before filing this one? (If you have found any duplicates, you should instead reply there.):
compression, gzip, response, json

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one):
Feature Request

JSON payload returned by Kubernetes can be very large on GET requests when there are a lot of managed resources in the cluster.

Currently it is not possible to specify that large response bodies should be compressed via request headers.

Specifying the Accept-Encoding header on a GET request should cause the k8s apiserver to respond with response Body compressed with the given encoding sceme (e..g gzip, bzip2, etc.)