Workspace Overview

A workspace is a logical unit to organize your projects and DevOps projects and manage app templates and app repositories. It is the place for you to control resource access and share resources within your team in a secure way.

It is a best practice to create a new workspace for tenants (excluding cluster administrators). A same tenant can work in multiple workspaces, while a workspace allows multiple tenants to access it in different ways.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create and delete a workspace.

Prerequisites

You have a user granted the role of workspaces-manager, such as ws-manager in Create Workspaces, Projects, Users and Roles.

Create a Workspace

1. Log in to the web console of KubeSphere as ws-manager. Click Platform on the upper-left corner, and then select Access Control. On the Workspaces page, click Create.

2. For single-node cluster, on the Basic Information page, specify a name for the workspace and select an administrator from the drop-down list. Click Create.

   • Name: Set a name for the workspace which serves as a unique identifier.
   • Alias: An alias name for the workspace.
   • Administrator: User that administers the workspace.
   • Description: A brief introduction of the workspace.

   For multi-node cluster, after the basic information about the workspace is set, click Next to continue. On the Cluster Settings page, select clusters to be used in the workspace, and then click Create.

3. The workspace is displayed in the workspace list after it is created.

4. Click the workspace and you can see resource status of the workspace on the Overview page.

Delete a Workspace

In KubeSphere, you use a workspace to group and manage different projects, which means the lifecycle of a project is dependent on the workspace. More specifically, all the projects and related resources in a workspace will be deleted if the workspace is deleted.

Before you delete a workspace, decide whether you want to unbind some key projects.

Unbind projects before deletion

To delete a workspace while preserving some projects in it, run the following command first:

kubectl label ns <namespace> kubesphere.io/workspace- && kubectl patch ns <namespace>   -p '{"metadata":{"ownerReferences":[]}}' --type=merge

Delete a workspace on the console

After you unbind necessary projects from a workspace, perform the following steps to delete a workspace.

1. In your workspace, go to Basic Information under Workspace Settings. On the Basic Information page, you can see the general information of the workspace, such as the number of projects and members.

   Note

   On this page, you can click Edit Information to change the basic information of the workspace (excluding the workspace name) and turn on/off Network Isolation.

2. To delete the workspace, click Manage > Delete Workspace. In the displayed dialog box, enter the name of the workspace, and then click OK.

   Warning

   A workspace cannot be restored after it is deleted and resources in the workspace will also be removed.

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