Network Policies

Network Policies An architecture diagram generated by Archify. Frontend Pod · app: frontend · Namespace A Frontend Pod app: frontend API Pod · app: api · Namespace A API Pod app: api Database Pod · app: db · Namespace A Database Pod app: db Network Policy 1 · NetworkPolicy · Namespace A Network Policy 1 NetworkPolicy Network Policy 2 · NetworkPolicy · Namespace A Network Policy 2 NetworkPolicy Monitoring Pod · Namespace B Monitoring Pod Network Policy 3 · NetworkPolicy · Namespace B Network Policy 3 NetworkPolicy Allowed Allowed Blocked Allowed Blocked Namespace A Namespace B Legend Frontend Backend Database Security

Network Policies

  • • Rules that control communication between Pods
  • • Requires a network plugin that supports them (Calico, Cilium, Weave Net)
  • • Solid lines are allowed traffic; red lines are traffic blocked by policy