Network policies in Kubernetes are like traffic rules for your application's components. They control which parts of your application can talk to each other and how. Here's a simple breakdown of how the policies in this guide work:
- Zero-Trust Starting Point: We begin by assuming no communication is allowed. It's like having walls between all parts of your application.
- Allowing Necessary Communication: We then create "doors" in these walls, but only where needed. For example:
- We allow components in the same environment (like production) to talk to each other.
- We let the backend talk to the frontend, but not the other way around.