#Importing Namespaces

#Overview

Namespace Lifecycle Management Capabilities:

• Cross-Cluster Namespace Import: Importing Namespaces into a Project centralizes their management across all Kubernetes Clusters provisioned by the platform. This provides administrators with unified resource governance and monitoring capabilities across distributed environments.

Namespace Disassociation:

• The Disassociate Namespace feature enables you to unlink a Namespace from its current Project, resetting its association for subsequent reassignment or cleanup.

• Importing a Namespace into a Project grants it capabilities equivalent to those of natively created Namespaces on the platform. This includes inherited Project-level Policies (e.g., Resource Quotas), unified monitoring, and centralized governance controls.

Important Notes:

• A Namespace can only be associated with one Project at any given time.
• If a Namespace is already linked to a Project, it cannot be imported into or reassigned to another Project without first disassociating it from its original Project.

#Use Cases

Common use cases for Namespace management include:

• Upon connecting a new Kubernetes cluster to the platform, you can utilize the Import Namespace feature to associate its existing Kubernetes Namespaces with a Project. Simply select the target Project and Cluster to initiate the import. This action grants the project governance over these namespace, encompassing Resource Quotas, monitoring, and policy enforcement.

• A namespace that has been disassociated from one project can be seamlessly re-associated with another project via the Import Namespace feature for continued centralized governance.

• Namespaces not currently managed by any project (e.g., those created via cluster-level scripts) must be linked to a target project using the Import Namespace feature to enable platform-level governance, including visibility and centralized management.

#Prerequisites

• The Namespace is not currently managed by any existing Project within the platform.
• Namespaces can only be imported into a Project that is already associated with their target Kubernetes Cluster. If no such Project exists, you must first provision a Project linked to that Cluster.

#Procedure

1. Project Management, click on the Project name where the namespace is to be imported.
2. Navigate to Namespaces > Namespaces.
3. Click on the Dropdown button next to Create Namespace, then select Import Namespace.
4. Refer to the Creating Namespaces documentation for parameter configuration details.
5. Click Import.