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LIMIT traffic to an application

You can create Networking Policies allowing traffic from only certain Pods.

Use Case:

  • Restrict traffic to a service only to other microservices that need to use it.
  • Restrict connections to a database only to the application using it.

Diagram of LIMIT traffic to an application policy

Example

Suppose your application is a REST API server, marked with labels app=bookstore and role=api:

kubectl run apiserver --image=nginx --labels="app=bookstore,role=api" --expose --port=80

Save the following NetworkPolicy to api-allow.yaml to restrict the access only to other pods (e.g. other microservices) running with label app=bookstore:

kind: NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: api-allow
spec:
  podSelector:
    matchLabels:
      app: bookstore
      role: api
  ingress:
  - from:
      - podSelector:
          matchLabels:
            app: bookstore
$ kubectl apply -f api-allow.yaml
networkpolicy "api-allow" created

Try it out

Test the Network Policy is blocking the traffic, by running a Pod without the app=bookstore label:

$ kubectl run test-$RANDOM --rm -i -t --image=alpine -- sh
/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver
wget: download timed out

Traffic is blocked!

Test the Network Policy is allowing the traffic, by running a Pod with the app=bookstore label:

$ kubectl run test-$RANDOM --rm -i -t --image=alpine --labels="app=bookstore,role=frontend" -- sh
/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>

Traffic is allowed.

Cleanup

kubectl delete pod apiserver
kubectl delete service apiserver
kubectl delete networkpolicy api-allow