Namespaces

Why Namespaces?

• Multiple virtual clusters backed by same physical cluster

• For teams with accountability

• Divides cluster resources

• Unique names of deployments/pods

Working with Namespaces

To get the existing namespaces in the cluster.

$ kubectl get namespaces

To create namespace

$ kubectl create namespace <name>

To delete a namespace

$ kubectl delete namespace <name>

To deploy a resource to a specific namespace append - n <namespace-name>