Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

Changing the default Namespace

As in the previous introduction, we can change the default Namespace by switching the current context in kubeconfig to another one:

1. First, we may check the current context with the subcommand config:

// check the current context in kubeconfig$ kubectl config current-contextkubernetes-admin@kubernetes

You may feel unfamiliar with the output when checking the current context. The value of the preceding current context is defined and created by kubeadm. You could get minikube shown on screen if you leveraged minikube as your Kubernetes system management tool.

2. No matter what you got from checking the current context in kubeconfig, use the subcommand config set-context to create a new context:

// create a new ...