diff --git a/roles/nova/vars/main.yml b/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
index 0271471..98d5bb6 100644
--- a/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nova/vars/main.yml
@@ -119,3 +119,7 @@
     service_placement: false
     # NOTE(mnaser): Enable this once we've got Ironic deployed.
     statefulset_compute_ironic: false
+
+_nova_novnc_ingress_annotations:
+  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "3600"
+  nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "3600"