Set up a Cluster Admin namespace for Migration

By default, you can only migrate namespaces in which the ClusterPair, MigrationSchedule, and migration are created. This is to prevent any user from migrating namespaces for which they do not have access.

You can also designate one namespace as an admin namespace, which allows an admin who has access to that namespace to migrate any namespace from the source cluster. This requires passing in the admin-namespace argument to the StorageCluster, and you also must have created the ClusterPair, MigrationSchedule, and migration in the admin namespace. By default, kube-system namespace is designated as an admin namespace. To learn how to create ClusterPair, MigrationSchedule, and migration objects in admin namespace, refer to migration with Stork on Kubernetes.

Run the following command to edit the StorageCluster. In the editor, update the arguments to StorageCluster (under spec.stork.args) to specify the cluster admin-namespace argument. For example:

kubectl edit stc <StorageCluster-name> -n kube-system

stork:
      args:
        admin-namespace: <admin-namespace>
        webhook-controller: "true"
      enabled: true

Save the changes and wait for all the Stork pods to be in running state after applying the changes:

kubectl get pods -n kube-system -l name=stork