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metadata-restriction-policy takes priority over user defined networking policies.

Raised in INC4116414.

Reproduced in a 1.30.2 cluster (commands below), root cause appears to be the calico globalnetworkpolicies.crd.projectcalico.org policy added as part of the last release (metadata-restriction-policy). This appears to be taking priority over the kubernetes native networkpolicies making them ineffectual.

$ cat <<EOF | k apply -f -
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: swan
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx
  namespace: swan
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
      name: http
    command: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
    args:
    - |
      sed -i 's/listen 80;/listen 8080;/g' /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && nginx -g 'daemon off;'
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: ubuntu
  namespace: swan
  labels:
    app: ubuntu
spec:
  containers:
  - name: ubuntu
    image: ubuntu
    command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "sleep infinity"]
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: default-deny-egress
  namespace: swan
spec:
  podSelector: {}
  policyTypes:
  - Egress
EOF

$ kubectl expose --port=80 -n swan --name nginx pod nginx

$ kubectl exec --stdin --tty -n swan ubuntu -- /bin/bash
# apt-get update && apt-get install wget -y

# wget nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local:80/

-2024-09-25 14:12:32--  http://nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local/
Resolving nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local (nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local)... 10.254.51.174
Connecting to nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local (nginx.swan.svc.cluster.local)|10.254.51.174|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 615 [text/html]
Saving to: 'index.html'

index.html                                                                      100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>]     615  --.-KB/s    in 0s

2024-09-25 14:12:32 (62.3 MB/s) - 'index.html' saved [615/615]
Edited by Jack Charlie Munday