Thank you for reaching out to us with this insightful feedback. Our Product team is still investigating this product improvement. In the mean time, our team has this as a possible workaround: https://github.com/digitalocean/container-blueprints/tree/main/DOKS-Egress-Gateway This might help. If you need help implementing this, please reach out to our support team at https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/ Thank you again and we'll continue to update you as more information becomes available.