Feature Request: Support for IPinfo Lite DB

[abdullahdevrel]

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I would like to propose adding support for IP-based geolocation using IPinfo's Lite Database as a data source in ingress-nginx. This could enable features like:

• Country-based access control
• Geolocation-based logging and analytics
• Region-aware rate limiting
• Enhanced observability with ASN and country context

This would be implemented via a lightweight GeoIP2-compatible lookup mechanism (e.g., custom Lua plugin or embedded logic), without needing to rely on MaxMind or a commercial license.

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Not that I'm aware of. Please let me know if similar geolocation enhancements are under discussion.

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No. As long as ConfigMaps and volume mounts are supported (which they are in all modern Kubernetes versions), this would work with any recent Kubernetes release.

Feature request: Using IPinfo Lite DB

I am requesting to add support for IPinfo's Lite to the project. The database has the following features:

• It is updated daily, with zero compromise to accuracy. There is no range clustering, and the database provides full accuracy.
• It includes country and ASN information in the same database.
• The data granularity reaches individual IP level.
• It is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, permitting commercial usage, redistribution, and repackaging.
• Available file formats include: CSV, MMDB, JSON and Parquet
• The data is tabular and unnested, making it very easy to use. The dataset includes both IPv4 and IPv6 in a single file.

Database schema

Field Name	Example	Data Type	Descrption
network	154.24.39.204/30	TEXT	CIDR/IP range or single IP address
country	Canada	TEXT	Country name
country_code	CA	TEXT	Two-letter ISO 3166 country code of the IP addresses
continent	North America	TEXT	Continent name of the IP location
continent_code	NA	TEXT	Two-letter continent code of the IP location
asn	AS174	TEXT	Autonomous System Number, an organization that owns the IP range block
as_name	Cogent Communications	TEXT	Name of the AS (Autonomous System Number) organization
as_domain	cogentco.com	TEXT	Official domain or website of the ASN organization

Documentation: https://ipinfo.io/developers/ipinfo-lite-database

Samples: https://github.com/ipinfo/sample-database/tree/main/IPinfo%20Lite

The IP database can be simply downloaded with only an free access token:

curl -L https://ipinfo.io/data/ipinfo_lite.csv.gz?token=$TOKEN -o ipinfo_lite.csv.gz

We also have a free IPinfo Lite API service based on this database that supports unlimited requests. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

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