Namespaces

Namespaces help different projects or teams share a StorageOS cluster. No namespaces are created by default, and users can have any number of namespaces.

Namespaces apply to volumes and rules.

Note: Docker does not support namespaces, so you should avoid mixing volumes created by docker volume create (which does not allow namespaces) with volumes created by storageos volume create (which requires a namespace).

Create a namespace

To start creating rules and volumes, at least one namespace is required. To create a namespace, run:

$ storageos namespace create legal --description compliance-volumes
legal

Add the --display-name flag to set a display-friendly name.

List all namespaces

To view namespaces, run:

$ storageos namespace ls -q
default
legal
performance

Remove -q for full details

Inspect namespaces

Check if a namespace has labels applied.

$ storageos namespace inspect legal | grep labels
        "labels": null,

Removing a namespace

Removing a namespace will remove all volumes and rules that belong to that namespace. An API call or CLI command to remove a namespace will fail if there are mounted volumes to prevent data loss.

To remove a namespace:

$ storageos namespace rm legal
legal

To force remove, even if there are mounted volumes:

storageos namespace rm --force my-namespace