What's Next?

Summary

Deploying test releases as part of a continuous deployment process is not the only usage of namespaces. There can be many other situations when they are useful. For example, we could give a separate namespace to each team in our organization. Or we could split the cluster into Namespaces based on the type of applications (e.g., monitoring, continuous-deployment, backend, and so on).

All in all, namespaces are a handy way to separate the cluster into different sections. Some of the namespaces we’ll create will be long-lasting, while others like the testing namespace from our examples will be short-lived.

The real power behind namespaces comes when they are combined with authorization policies and constraints. However, because we haven’t yet explored those subjects, we’ll limit our namespaces experience to their basic form.