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The apikey
template represents a single API key, which is used for authorization checks.
Example config:
apiVersion: "config.istio.io/v1alpha2"
kind: apikey
metadata:
name: validate-apikey
namespace: istio-system
spec:
api: api.service | ""
api_version: api.version | ""
api_operation: api.operation | ""
api_key: api.key | ""
timestamp: request.time
The apikey
template represents a single API key, used to authorize API calls.
An instance field of type TimeStamp denotes that the expression for the field must evalaute to ValueType.TIMESTAMP
Objects of type TimeStamp are also passed to the adapters during request-time for the instance fields of type TimeStamp