apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1 kind: ClusterPolicy metadata: name: disallow-default-namespace annotations: policies.kyverno.io/category: Workload Isolation policies.kyverno.io/description: Kubernetes namespaces are an optional feature that provide a way to segment and isolate cluster resources across multiple applications and users. As a best practice, workloads should be isolated with namespaces. Namespaces should be required and the default (empty) namespace should not be used. spec: rules: - name: validate-namespace match: resources: kinds: - Pod validate: message: "Using 'default' namespace is not allowed" pattern: metadata: namespace: "!default" - name: require-namespace match: resources: kinds: - Pod validate: message: "A namespace is required" pattern: metadata: namespace: "?*"