Civo Kubernetes: Where Does Your Pod's Traffic Actually Go?

** Civo Kubernetes: Where Does Your Pod's Traffic Actually Go? **

On Civo’s managed Kubernetes (built on K3s), worker nodes never get a public IP at all — only the control plane does. So no matter which node your pod lands on, its outbound traffic has to travel through that one public-facing gateway. It’s a deliberate architectural choice, and once you understand why Civo does this and how the routing actually works under the hood, a lot of things click into place.In this post we’ll cover:How Civo uses one IP for all pod egressWhat to whitelist when third parties require itEdge cases to avoid

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