></figure><p>An application may choose to bind to either the loopback interface <code>lo</code> (typically binding to <code>127.0.0.1</code>), or the pods network interface <code>eth0</code> (typically to the pod&rsquo;s IP), or both (typically binding to <code>0.0.0.0</code>).</p><p>Binding to <code>lo</code> allows calls such as <code>curl localhost</code> to work from within the pod.
Binding to <code>eth0</code> allows calls to the pod from other pods.</p><p>Typically, an application will bind to both.
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