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2020-01-13 Kubernetes

Change Current Namespace

Set/Switch the Default namespace when using kubectl#

First get all the namespaces available:

> kubectl get ns
NAME              STATUS   AGE
cattle-system     Active   53d
default           Active   53d
development       Active   52d
heptio-sonobuoy   Active   33d
ingress-nginx     Active   53d
kube-node-lease   Active   53d
kube-public       Active   53d
kube-system       Active   53d
wordpress         Active   33d

To set the default namespace when using kubectl:

kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=ingress-nginx

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