Architecture - Project Namespacing

Project namespacing is implemented in several of the tools across the platform where it makes sense to subdivide to prevent collisions and also to support multi-tenancy.

Namespacing involves the following two concepts:

• Workspaces
  • Contain one or more projects
• Projects
  • Contain one or more loaded cartridges

The following tools support namespacing:

• Jenkins
• Gerrit

Jenkins

Namespacing in Jenkins is achieved using:

• CloudBees Folders plugin
  • To allow folders to be created that namespace the jobs
• Role Strategy plugin
  • To restrict which groups have access to the different namespaces

Gerrit

Namespacing in Gerrit is achieved by:

• Creating repositories within directories that are aligned with the namespacing in Jenkins
• Creating a project-specific permissions repository that restricts access to all repositories within that project