From e063811cdbe725bd8cfb9936d1af4e394b7c1550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Janet Kuo Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 05:03:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Document owner ref restrictions explicitly (#12543) --- .../concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md index a2b8517afaa62..ee3fb1fcd5da8 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ metadata: ... ``` +{{< note >}} +Cross-namespace owner references is disallowed by design. This means: +1) Namespace-scoped dependents can only specify owners in the same namespace, +and owners that are cluster-scoped. +2) Cluster-scoped dependents can only specify cluster-scoped owners, but not +namespace-scoped owners. +{{< /note >}} + ## Controlling how the garbage collector deletes dependents When you delete an object, you can specify whether the object's dependents are