OpenShift Namespace Configuration Management

Benjamin Porter
2 min readNov 10, 2020

Once you have your shiny new OpenShift cluster set up, you face the task of deciding how you want to manage your namespaces (projects).

A namespace is a unit of organization that brings with it some management implications. If you put time into a designing a good namespace configuration, you get a lot of administrative functions for free, such as RBAC policies.

RBAC role bindings are done at the namespace scope, which means a user will generally have the same access permissions to each type of object in the namespace. For this…

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Benjamin Porter

Ben Porter is a Software Engineer who specializes in distributed applications (like web apps). He is currently Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ameelio.org