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title: Annotations

This document describes all supported annotations and their functions. You can add these annotations in the Ingress resources so that advanced features in Apache APISIX can be combined into Ingress resources.

Note all keys and values of annotations are strings, so boolean value like true and false should be represented as "true" and "false".

CORS Support

In order to enable CORS, the annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/enable-cors should be set to "true", also, there are some other annotations to customize the cors behavior.

• k8s.apisix.apache.org/cors-allow-origin

This annotation controls which origins will be allowed, multiple origins join together with ,, for instance: https://foo.com,http://bar.com:8080

Default value is "*", which means all origins are allowed.

• k8s.apisix.apache.org/cors-allow-headers

This annotation controls which headers are accepted, multiple headers join together with ,.

Default is "*", which means all headers are accepted.

• k8s.apisix.apache.org/cors-allow-methods

This annotation controls which methods are accepted, multiple methods join together with ,.

Default is "*", which means all HTTP methods are accepted.

Allowlist Source Range

You can specify the allowed client IP addresses or nets by the annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/allowlist-source-range, multiple IP addresses or nets join together with ,, for instance, k8s.apisix.apache.org/allowlist-source-range: 10.0.5.0/16,127.0.0.1,192.168.3.98. Default value is empty, which means the sources are not limited.

Blocklist Source Range

You can specify the denied client IP addresses or nets by the annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/blocklist-source-range, multiple IP addresses or nets join together with ,, for instance, k8s.apisix.apache.org/blocklist-source-range: 127.0.0.1,172.17.0.0/16. Default value is empty, which means the sources are not limited.

Rewrite Target

You can rewrite requests by specifying the annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target or k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex.

The annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target controls where the request will be forwarded to.

If you want to use regex and match groups, use annotation k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex and k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex-template. The first annotation contains the matching rule (regex), the second one contains the rewrite rule.

Both annotations must be used together, otherwise they will be ignored.

For example, we have an Ingress matches prefix path /app, and we set k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex to /app/(.*) and set k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex-template to /$1.

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: apisix
    k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex: "/app/(.*)"
    k8s.apisix.apache.org/rewrite-target-regex-template: "/$1"
  name: ingress-v1
spec:
  rules:
  - host: httpbin.org
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /app
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: httpbin
            port:
              number: 80

With this Ingress, any requests with /app prefix will be forwarded to backend without the /app/ part, e.g. request /app/ip will be forwarded to /ip.