Kubernetes annotations and labels

Use Kubernetes annotations and labels in your manifests.

This topic describes how to use annotations and labels to select objects you defined in your manifests.

Annotations

To see annotations in action, see Deploy Manifests Separately using Apply Step and Ignore a Manifest. Annotations are a way to pass additional metadata for resources to Harness. For a description of Annotations, go to Annotations from Kubernetes.

The following Annotations can be put on resource specifications in the Harness Service Manifests section.

Annotation	Value	Usage
harness.io/skip-versioning	"true"	"false"
harness.io/direct-apply	"true"	"false"
harness.io/primary-service	"true"	"false"
harness.io/stage-service	"true"	"false"

Labels

The following labels are applied by Harness during deployment.

Label	Value	Usage
harness.io/release-name	release name	Applied on pods. Harness uses a release name for tracking releases, rollback, etc. You can supply a release name in an Environment's Infrastructure Definition Release Name field.
harness.io/track	canary | stable	Applied on pods in a Canary deployment.
harness.io/color	blue | green	Applied on pods in a Blue/Green deployment.

Next steps

• Kubernetes Releases and Versioning