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Exploring the Existing Namespaces

Exploring the Existing Namespaces

Explore and discuss the existing namespaces briefly.

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Now that we know that our cluster has multiple namespaces, let’s explore them a bit.

Getting the existing namespaces

We can list all the namespaces through the kubectl get namespaces command. As with most other Kubernetes objects and resources, we can also use the shortcut ns instead of the full name.

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kubectl get ns

The output is as follows:

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NAME              STATUS   AGE
default           Active   23m
kube-node-lease   Active   23m
kube-public       Active   23m
kube-system       Active   23m

We can see that three namespaces were set up automatically when we created the cluster.

The default namespace

The default namespace is the one we’ve used throughout so far. If we do ...

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