id: namespace
name: Namespace
full-link: /docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces
tags:
  - fundamental
short-description: >
  An abstraction used by Kubernetes to support multiple virtual clusters on the same physical {% glossary_tooltip text="cluster" term_id="cluster" %}.
long-description: >
  Namespaces are used to organize objects in a cluster and provide a way to divide cluster resources.
  Names of resources need to be unique within a namespace, but not across namespaces.