Namespace management techniques for facilitating multi-cluster application development

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon program code executable by a computer system executing a multi-cluster management system, the program code embodying a method for managing namespaces in the multi-cluster management system, the method comprising:

• creating a workspace for an application being developed by a software development team of an organization, wherein the workspace is a logical grouping of namespaces on which the application has been or will be deployed, wherein each namespace provides a unique scope for resources and objects within a cluster, such that the resources and objects residing in said each namespace are not accessible from other namespaces, and wherein at least a subset of the namespaces in the workspace belong to different clusters of the organization, the different clusters corresponding to different sets of machines residing in different computing environments;
• and
• assigning a member of the development team as a workspace administrator of the workspace, the assigning enabling the member of the development team to perform one or more management tasks on the workspace and the namespaces via the multi-cluster management system,
• wherein the one or more management tasks include a task for setting an access policy on the workspace, the access policy including at least one or more user-role bindings that enable one or more other members of the development team to access the namespaces in the workspace, and
• wherein, upon receiving the access policy from the workspace administrator, the computer system translates the access policy into a native format understood by the different clusters and transmits the translated policy to each of the different clusters.

A computer system executing a multi-cluster management system, the computer system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
• create a workspace for an application being developed by a software development team of an organization, wherein the workspace is a logical grouping of namespaces on which the application has been or will be deployed, wherein each namespace provides a unique scope for resources and objects within a cluster, such that the resources and objects residing in said each namespace are not accessible from other namespaces, and wherein at least a subset of the namespaces in the workspace belong to different clusters of the organization, the different clusters corresponding to different sets of machines residing in different computing environments;
• and
• assign a member of the development team as a workspace administrator of the workspace, the assigning enabling the member of the development team to perform one or more management tasks on the workspace and the namespaces via the multi-cluster management system,
• wherein the one or more management tasks include a task for setting an access policy on the workspace, the access policy including at least one or more user-role bindings that enable one or more other members of the development team to access the namespaces in the workspace, and
• wherein, upon receiving the access policy from the workspace administrator, the computer system translates the access policy into a native format understood by the different clusters and transmits the translated policy to each of the different clusters.