Namespaces are the organization structure in Flux that allow you to name your workflows and group them together in logical units.
Namespaces are used in several places through Flux:
- The Runtime Configuration.
- Operations performed using the Java API and the Command Line Interface.
- Security permissions.
Because of the wide range of applications for namespaces, we've developed a few simple best practices to keep in mind when building your namespace structures.
Workflows should share a common namespace folder in any of the following scenarios:
- Multiple workflows will access the same set of underlying data (FTP server locations, web service applications, etc.). Sharing a namespace will allow these workflows to use the runtime configuration to access the same set of underlying data, which will only need to be updated in a single location.
- Multiple workflows will share the same security restrictions, or your users will only need to access / operate on a particular class of workflow. Namespaces can help distinguish workflows by type, allowing your users to see only the workflows that interest them.
- Users will often need to perform batch operations on a set of workflows. Namespaces allow you to perform operations at the namespace folder level, so users can quickly perform tasks like pausing, expediting, or removing entire groups of workflows in a single operation.
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