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Editing a network policy

As a cluster administrator, you can edit an existing network policy for a namespace.

Editing a network policy

You can edit a network policy in a namespace.

Prerequisites

  • Your cluster is using a default CNI network provider that supports NetworkPolicy objects, such as the OpenShift SDN network provider with mode: NetworkPolicy set. This mode is the default for OpenShift SDN.

  • You installed the OpenShift CLI (oc).

  • You are logged in to the cluster with a user with cluster-admin privileges.

Procedure

  1. Optional: List the current NetworkPolicy objects.

    1. If you want to list the policy objects in a specific namespace, enter the following command. Replace <namespace> with the namespace for a project.

      $ oc get networkpolicy -n <namespace>

    2. If you want to list the policy objects for the entire cluster, enter the following command:

      $ oc get networkpolicy --all-namespaces

  2. Edit the NetworkPolicy object.

    1. If you saved the network policy definition in a file, edit the file and make any necessary changes, and then enter the following command. Replace <policy-file> with the name of the file containing the object definition.

      $ oc apply -f <policy-file>.yaml

    2. If you need to update the NetworkPolicy object directly, you can enter the following command. Replace <policy-name> with the name of the NetworkPolicy object and <namespace> with the name of the project where the object exists.

      $ oc edit <policy-name> -n <namespace>

  3. Confirm that the NetworkPolicy object is updated. Replace <namespace> with the name of the project where the object exists.

    $ oc get networkpolicy -n <namespace> -o yaml

Example NetworkPolicy object

The following annotates an example NetworkPolicy object:

kind: NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: allow-27107 (1)
spec:
  podSelector: (2)
    matchLabels:
      app: mongodb
  ingress:
  - from:
    - podSelector: (3)
        matchLabels:
          app: app
    ports: (4)
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 27017
1 The name of the NetworkPolicy object.
2 A selector describing the pods the policy applies to. The policy object can only select pods in the project that the NetworkPolicy object is defined.
3 A selector matching the pods that the policy object allows ingress traffic from. The selector will match pods in any project.
4 A list of one or more destination ports to accept traffic on.

Additional resources