From 0ca22ac56868303a551e31bfc05cc579054727b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shabirmean Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:06:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update definition for namespaces Update namespace definition to not use _Virtual Clusters_ as a means of explaining namespaces. Motif: KubeCon NA 21 Talk on ***"Beyond Namespaces: Virtual Clusters are the Future of Multi-Tenancy - Lukas Gentele, Loft Labs"*** --- .../docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md index 6664a2ad4c..541326ff9a 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ weight: 30 -Kubernetes supports multiple virtual clusters backed by the same physical cluster. -These virtual clusters are called namespaces. +Namespaces in Kubernetes provides a mechanism for scoping cluster resources by name. Names of resources need to be unique within a namespace, but not across namespaces. Namespace based scoping is applicable only for namespaced objects _(e.g. Deployments, Services, etc)_ and not for cluster-wide objects _(e.g. StorageClass, Nodes, PersistentVolumes, etc)_.