Naming

A fully qualified object name is formatted as <namespace>/<kind>/<name>.

Namespace

Namespaces allow users to create objects with the same name in different naming spaces.

Namespace names must conform to RFC952:

  • only alphanum characters or dash

  • start with an alpha

  • end with an alphanum

Kind

  • svc A service, with a mix of ip, app, container, volume, disk, fs and task resources.

  • vol A data volume from a pool, with a mix of volume, disk and fs resources.

  • cfg A configuration map, storing unencrypted key/value pairs for use by other kinded objects.

  • sec A secret, storing encrypted key/value pairs for use by other kinded objects.

  • ccfg The special kind for the cluster configuration object.

Name

Names must conform to RFC952, with a tolerance for dots.

A name must be unique in its namespace and kind.