 egress proxy or firewall</strong> lets you
configure applications to direct the traffic to the proxy and use some proxy protocol, for example,
<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS>SOCKS</a>.
Since operators must configure the applications, this solution is not transparent. Moreover, operators can&rsquo;t use
pod labels or pod service accounts to configure the proxies because the egress proxies don&rsquo;t know about them. Therefore, <strong>the egress proxies are not Kubernetes-aware</strong> and ca