Global Network Set Resource (GlobalNetworkSet)

A global network set resource (GlobalNetworkSet) represents an arbitrary set of IP subnetworks/CIDRs, allowing it to be matched by Calico policy. Network sets are useful for applying policy to traffic coming from (or going to) external, non-Calico, networks.

The metadata for each network set includes a set of labels. When Calico is calculating the set of IPs that should match a source/destination selector within a global network policy rule, it includes the CIDRs from any network sets that match the selector.

Important: Since Calico matches packets based on their source/destination IP addresses, Calico rules may not behave as expected if there is NAT between the Calico-enabled node and the networks listed in a network set. For example, in Kubernetes, incoming traffic via a service IP is typically SNATed by the kube-proxy before reaching the destination host so Calico’s workload policy will see the kube-proxy’s host’s IP as the source instead of the real source.

For calicoctl commands that specify a resource type on the CLI, the following aliases are supported (all case insensitive): globalnetworkset, globalnetworksets.

Sample YAML

apiVersion: projectcalico.org/v3
kind: GlobalNetworkSet
metadata:
  name: a-name-for-the-set
  labels:
    role: external-database
spec:
  nets:
  - 198.51.100.0/28
  - 203.0.113.0/24

GlobalNetworkSet Definition

Metadata

Spec