#Introduction

A Kubernetes network policy is a specification of how groups of pods are allowed to communicate with each other and other network endpoints. These network policies are configured as YAML files. By looking at these files alone, it is often hard to identify whether the applied network policies achieve the desired network topology.

Alauda Container Security gathers all defined network policies from your orchestrator and provides tools to make these policies easier to use.

To support network policy enforcement, Alauda Container Security provides the following tools:

• Network graph
• Network policy generator
• Network policy simulator
• Build-time network policy generator