Kubernetes 101 : Default namespaces, custom namespaces and pods
For organization and also isolation purposes, kubernetes creates during its initial setup its main default namespaces - default, kube-system and kube-public -.
To see these namespace, we use the below command:
When we create a kubernetes object, a pod for example without mentioning any namespace, our pod is created in the default namespace.
The kube-system namespace contains all the resources that make the kubernetes cluster run as we can see below:
The kube-public namespace is accessible by everybody, it is mainly used to house public cluster information, ...
We can create a namespace using a Yaml file as below:
Then we "apply" the Yaml file:
We can check if our namespace was created using the below command:
Now that we have our namespace, we are going to run an "nginx" pod in it using the below command:
To see our pod, we would need to specify the namespace otherwise we will only see the resources in the default namespace:
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