tween the MongoDB and its clients running within the application, as this is a more realistic scenario.</p><p>Several cases for accessing the external database from the mesh were tested and described next.</p><h2 id=egress-traffic-cases>Egress traffic cases</h2><h3 id=case-1-bypassing-the-sidecar>Case 1: Bypassing the sidecar</h3><p>In this case, the sidecar does not intercept the communication between the application and the external DB. This is accomplished by setting the init container argument -x with t