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A Brief Recap: What are Network Policies? Network policies are used in Kubernetes to specify how groups of pods are allowed to communicate with each other and with external network endpoints. They can be thought of as the Kubernetes equivalent of a firewall. As with most Kubernetes objects, network policies are extremely flexible and powerful – if you know the exact communications patterns of the services in your application, you can use network policies to restrict communications to exactly what’s required and nothing more. Ingress vs. Egress Network policies can be used to specify both allowed ingress to pods and…