t intercept the communication between the application and the external DB. This is accomplished by setting the init container argument -x with the CIDR of the MongoDB, which makes the sidecar ignore messages to/from this IP address. For example:</p><pre><code>    - -x
    - "169.47.232.211/32"</code></pre><figure style=width:70%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:76.45536869340232%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.5/pt-br/blog/2019/egress-performance/case1_sidecar_bypass3.png tit