Static Inbound & Outbound IPs for Kubernetes
Assign a permanent, verifiable IP identity to your Kubernetes pods.
Connect specific Pods or Namespaces to firewalled resources without the cost and complexity of a Cloud NAT Gateway.
Fixed IP Identity for Allowlisting
Getting a static IP in Kubernetes usually means expensive NAT Gateways that apply to the entire cluster.
QuotaGuard provides a granular, static outbound IP for your individual microservices, allowing specific Pods to connect securely to restricted databases and APIs while the rest of the cluster flows normally.
Note: QuotaGuard is designed for connecting Kubernetes infrastructure to IP-restricted B2B resources like SQL databases, internal APIs, and secure gateways. This solution is not intended for web scraping consumer sites (e.g., social media or ticketing platforms) that block cloud infrastructure.
Flexible Integration Patterns
QuotaGuard fits into your K8s architecture however you prefer.
Inject configuration via ConfigMaps and Secrets, or use a sidecar pattern to tunnel traffic without modifying your application code.
Env Injection
The simplest method, just inject HTTP_PROXY variables into your Deployment YAML via K8s Secrets.
This requires zero code changes for most modern languages like Node.js, Python, and Go.
QGPass Sidecar
Run qgpass as a sidecar to tunnel traffic for legacy applications that ignore proxy settings.
This encapsulates the proxy logic alongside your application container, ensuring secure routing even for binary protocols.
Helm Friendly
Easily templatize your proxy configuration to deploy across Staging and Production namespaces.
You can manage environment-specific credentials as standard values, ensuring dev traffic never mixes with production data.
Resilience for Orchestrated Workloads
Kubernetes creates dynamic, self-healing environments.
Your network identity needs to be just as resilient.
Our dual-node architecture ensures that even if your Pods reschedule to a different node, their connectivity remains unbroken.
FAQs
Technical answers regarding Sidecars, Ingress/Egress, and configuring K8s Secrets for static IPs.
No.
An Ingress Controller (like Nginx or Traefik) manages internal routing of traffic entering your cluster. QuotaGuard acts as the Static IP entry point for that traffic. For Outbound, we route your Pod traffic to secure destinations.
For Outbound, we route your Pod traffic to the world.
For Inbound, we accept traffic from partners at a static IP and tunnel it securely to your Ingress controller or specific Service, masking your cluster's actual public IP.
Yes.
You can configure your Service Mesh's "Egress Gateway" to route external traffic through QuotaGuard.
This allows you to centralize your static IP management at the mesh level, rather than configuring individual Pods.
Yes.
If you have a private cluster (no public ingress) but need to receive webhooks from a bank or partner, you can use QuotaGuard as the entry point.
The partner sends data to your QG Static IP, and we tunnel that request securely to your specific Service, bypassing the need to expose your entire cluster to the public internet.
Yes.
Since Fargate and Autopilot abstract away the underlying nodes, you cannot assign static IPs at the infrastructure level.
QuotaGuard is the ideal solution here because it operates at the Application/Pod level, allowing you to have a static egress IP even in a fully serverless container environment.
QuotaGuard is designed to scale with your HPA. As your HPA spins up new Pod replicas during a traffic spike, each new Pod simply connects to our proxy cloud.
We handle the concurrency and connection pooling, so you can scale from 10 to 1,000 Pods without hitting "IP exhaustion" limits often found with NAT Gateways.
Yes. This is a common pattern for multi-tenant clusters.
You can create separate QuotaGuard subscriptions for your staging namespace vs. your production namespace.
This ensures that testing traffic never shares the same IP reputation as your critical live traffic.
It can if you aren't careful.
By default, setting HTTP_PROXY routes all traffic to QuotaGuard.
To prevent your Pods from trying to proxy internal traffic (like http://backend-service.default.svc), you must configure the NO_PROXY environment variable.
We recommend adding localhost,127.0.0.1,.svc,.cluster.local to your NO_PROXY list.
This ensures that internal service-to-service communication remains direct and fast, while only external traffic travels through the static IP.
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