Hi Carlos, let’s say that some pods will use the NGINX for internal communication within the cluster and we don’t want a proxy layer for these requests which are from “ within the cluster” so please suggest how will we whitelist the traffic which is coming from the internal cluster, at the same time whatever traffic is coming from outside should be landed on proxy then Nginx which is happening fine correctly.

I think just creating a service on top NGINX and not creating INGRESS on top of it not a good solution since anyone who has access to the cluster can do port-forwarding to that service!