By default, every Pod in a Kubernetes cluster can talk to every other Pod, in every namespace. That makes things easy but means a single compromised Pod can reach databases and internal APIs it has no business touching. A NetworkPolicy is a namespaced object that restricts which traffic is allowed to and from selected Pods, acting like a firewall defined by labels.
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