website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/namespace.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Namespace	namespace	2018-04-12	/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces	An abstraction used by Kubernetes to support multiple virtual clusters on the same physical cluster.		fundamental

An abstraction used by Kubernetes to support multiple virtual clusters on the same physical {{< glossary_tooltip text="cluster" term_id="cluster" >}}.

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.