Move things into a 'kube-system' namespace.

pkg/api/types.go

@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ const (
 	NamespaceAll string = ""
 	// NamespaceNone is the argument for a context when there is no namespace.
 	NamespaceNone string = ""
+	// NamespaceSystem is the system namespace where we place system components.
+	NamespaceSystem string = "kube-system"
 	// TerminationMessagePathDefault means the default path to capture the application termination message running in a container
 	TerminationMessagePathDefault string = "/dev/termination-log"
 )

pkg/kubectl/cmd/clusterinfo.go

@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ func RunClusterInfo(factory *cmdutil.Factory, out io.Writer, cmd *cobra.Command)
 	printService(out, "Kubernetes master", client.Host)
 
 	mapper, typer := factory.Object()
-	cmdNamespace, _, err := factory.DefaultNamespace()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
+	cmdNamespace := cmdutil.GetFlagString(cmd, "namespace")
+	if cmdNamespace == "" {
+		cmdNamespace = api.NamespaceSystem
 	}
 
 	// TODO use generalized labels once they are implemented (#341)