Question about project creation with reserved prefix in OpenShift

[GiangPham]

Hi,

I encountered an issue while practicing with the DO280 course.

When I try to create a project with the name openshift-compliance, I receive the following error:

Error from server (Forbidden): project.project.openshift.io "openshift-compliance" is forbidden: cannot request a project starting with "openshift-"

However, if I create a namespace with the same name, it succeeds. Running oc get project still shows the project openshift-compliance.

My question: is this behavior a bug, or is it an intentional mechanism in OpenShift?

Best Regards

[Chetan_Tiwary_ · Accepted solution]

@GiangPham This is intentional i.e by design. 

OCP Console prevents creation of openshift- prefixed projects, but it imposes no such restriction for namespaces.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1777536