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How to allow all egress in Kubernetes NetworkPolicy

Kubernetes relies on Network policies to specify how groups of pods can communicate with one other as well as with external network endpoints. Additionally, they can specify both allowed ingress to pods as well as allowed egress from pods.

These ensure traffic to a pod from an external network endpoint is permitted if ingress from that endpoint is allowed. Furthermore, traffic from a pod to an external network endpoint not in the cluster is permitted if egress is allowed.

According to our experts, each NetworkPolicy can include a list of permitted egress rules. Each rule permits traffic that matches the to and ports sections.

Additionally, we can allow all egress traffic in Kubernetes easily. This involves creating a policy that permits all outgoing connections from pods in that specific namespace.

This policy ensures that other policies cannot deny any outgoing connection from those pods. Additionally, the policy does not have any effect on isolation for ingress to any pod.

On the other hand, we can also deny all ingress and egress traffic with the following NetworkPolicy in that namespace:

Interestingly, if no policies exist in a namespace, by default all ingress and egress traffic is allowed to and from pods in that namespace.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, our Support Engineers set up NetworkPolicy in Kubernetes to allow all egress. We also got a look at how we can deny all ingress and egress traffic.