---
title: "Calico Cloud network policy for beginners"
description: "Beginner-friendly path for writing your first Calico Cloud network policies — a tour of the basic resource types and rule patterns."
product: "Calico Cloud"
version: "v23.0.1"
section: "Network policy"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/"
---

# Calico Cloud network policy for beginners

## [📄️Enable a default deny policy for Kubernetes pods](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/kubernetes-default-deny.md)

[Apply a default-deny network policy in a Calico Cloud connected cluster so unprotected pods are denied traffic until explicit policy is written.](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/kubernetes-default-deny.md)

## [📄️Get started with Calico network policy](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/calico-network-policy.md)

[Write your first Calico Cloud NetworkPolicy — sample policies that exercise the rich rule features beyond Kubernetes NetworkPolicy.](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/calico-network-policy.md)

## [📄️Calico Cloud automatic labels](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/calico-labels.md)

[Reference list of automatic labels Calico Cloud attaches to resources, useful as selectors in policy rules.](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/calico-labels.md)

## [📄️Calico Cloud for Kubernetes demo](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/simple-policy-cnx.md)

[Tour of the additional features Calico Cloud adds to Kubernetes policy that make it suitable for production environments.](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/simple-policy-cnx.md)

## [🗃Policy rules](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/policy-rules.md)

[6 items](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/policy-rules.md)

## [🗃Policy for services](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/services.md)

[2 items](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-cloud/network-policy/beginners/services.md)