Introduction

I described a problem of testing software during unexpected loosing of connection or deny of external service, but in that post I told that there is no way to interrupt TCP connection by Kubernetes Network Policy. I was wrong, there is a way to do so. I just used another k8s network plugin where interruption of live TCP connection didn’t worked. But I found a solution and name for it — Cilium Network Policy

Cilium Network Policy

Cilium — is just another network policy for Kubernetes which should be installed first to be used which gives a possibility to achieve my target: block traffic to one pod and terminate exists TCP connections.

I created PoC project for test Cilium Network Policy which can be accessed at GitHub.

Network policy which blocks all traffic from a pod looks like:

1apiVersion: cilium.io/v2  
2kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy  
3metadata:  
4  name: deny-server-egress  
5  namespace: server  
6spec:  
7  endpointSelector:  
8    matchLabels:  
9      app: server  
10      name: server  
11  egress:   
12  - {}

The same like a network policy from my previous post, but just changed "apiVersion" and "kind".

Pods logs after blocked traffic

Conclusions

As conclusion I want to say that during solving software problem I should try more to use already exists solutions rather than implement my own which I like too much. Modern search technologies, like ChatGPT or Google gives me a possibility to find another ways to achieve my target with sophisticated solution without recreated system architecture again.

Resources

1. Cilium docs
2. Kubernetes Network Policies with Cilium