09-allow-traffic-only-to-a-port.md

ALLOW traffic only to a port of an application

This NetworkPolicy lets you define ingress rules for specific ports of an application. If you do not specify a port in the ingress rules, the rule applies to all ports.

A port may be either a numerical or named port on a pod.

Use Cases

• Allow monitoring system to collect the metrics by querying the diagnostics port of your application, without giving it access to the rest of the application.

Example

Run a web server pod called apiserver:

kubectl run apiserver --image=ahmet/app-on-two-ports --labels="app=apiserver"

This application returns a hello response to requests on http://:8000/ and a monitoring metrics response on http://:5000/metrics.

Expose the pod as Service, map 8000 to 8001, map 5000 to 5001.

kubectl create service clusterip apiserver \
    --tcp 8001:8000 \
    --tcp 5001:5000

NOTE: Network Policies will not know the port numbers you exposed the application, such as 8001 and 5001. This is because they control inter-pod traffic and when you expose Pod as Service, ports are remapped like above. Therefore, you need to use the Pod port numbers (such as 8000 and 5000) in the NetworkPolicy specification. An alternative less error prone is to refer to the port names (such as metrics and http).

Save this Network Policy as api-allow-5000.yaml and apply to the cluster.

kind: NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: api-allow-5000
spec:
  podSelector:
    matchLabels:
      app: apiserver
  ingress:
  - ports:
    - port: 5000
    from:
    - podSelector:
        matchLabels:
          role: monitoring

$ kubectl apply -f api-allow-5000.yaml
networkpolicy "api-allow-5000" created

This network policy will:

• Drop all non-whitelisted traffic to app=apiserver.
• Allow traffic on port 5000 from pods with label role=monitoring in the same namespace.

Try it out

Run a pod with no custom labels, observe the traffic to ports 5000 and 8000 are blocked:

$ kubectl run test-$RANDOM --rm -i -t --image=alpine -- sh
/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver:8001
wget: download timed out

/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver:5001/metrics
wget: download timed out

Run a pod with role=monitoring label, observe the traffic to port 5000 is allowed, but port 8000 is still not accessible:

$ kubectl run test-$RANDOM --labels="role=monitoring" --rm -i -t --image=alpine -- sh
/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver:8001
wget: download timed out

/ # wget -qO- --timeout=2 http://apiserver:5001/metrics
http.requests=3
go.goroutines=5
go.cpus=1

Cleanup

kubectl delete pod apiserver
kubectl delete service apiserver
kubectl delete networkpolicy api-allow-5000