Hi Team I’m trying to restrict pod egress traffic using DNS-based rules in Cilium network policies on a DOKS cluster.
With the default Cilium installation on DOKS, DNS-based policies do not work because Cilium requires the --enable-l7-proxy flag to be enabled. Since Cilium is managed by DOKS, there is currently no supported way to enable this flag.
Could you enable L7 proxy support by default in a future DOKS Cilium release or make cilium settings configurable.
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Interesting use case.
Since Cilium is managed as part of the DOKS control plane, most of those configuration flags aren’t exposed to users today. I’m not sure if enabling --enable-l7-proxy is something that can currently be customized in managed clusters.
It might be worth reaching out to DigitalOcean support to see if this is something the team is considering for future DOKS Cilium releases or if there’s a recommended workaround:
Heya,
On top of what’s already been mentioned, If you need actual DNS-based filtering, you can run an egress proxy (Squid or Envoy) as a pod in the cluster and funnel your workload traffic through it. More overhead to manage, but it’s completely independent of Cilium’s L7 support.
Regards
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