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# Consul Namespace Create

Command: `consul namespace create`

This `namespace create` command creates a namespaces using the CLI parameters provided. 
This was added in Consul Enterprise 1.7.2.

## Usage

Usage: `consul namespace create -name <namespace name> [options]`

Request a namespace to be created. Construction of the namespace definition is handled by this command
from the CLI arguments.

#### API Options

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#### Command Options

* `-default-policy-id=<value>` - ID of a policy from the default namespace to inject for all tokens
   in this namespace. May be specified multiple times.

* `-default-policy-name=<value>` - Name of a policy from the default namespace to inject for all
   tokens in this namespace. May be specified multiple times.

* `-default-role-id=<value>` - ID of a role from the default namespace to inject for all tokens in
   this namespace. May be specified multiple times.

* `-default-role-name=<value>` - Name of a role from the default namespace to inject for all tokens
   in this namespace. May be specified multiple times.

* `-description=<string>` - A description of the namespace.

* `-format=<string>` - How to output the results. The choices are: pretty or json

* `-meta=<value>` - Metadata to set on the namespace, formatted as key=value. This flag
   may be specified multiple times to set multiple meta fields

* `-name=<string>` - The namespace's name. This flag is required.

* `-show-meta` - Indicates that namespace metadata such as the raft indices should
   be shown for the namespace

## Examples

Create a new Namespace:

```sh
$ consul namespace create -name "team-1"
Name: team-1
```

Showing Raft Metadata:

```sh
$ consul namespace create -name team-1 -show-meta
Name: team-1
Create Index: 339
Modify Index: 344
```

JSON Format:

```sh
$ consul namespace create -name team2 -description "Example Namespace" -meta "team-id=574407f3-8b26-4c84-8e51-028bb8cbdd37" -format=json
{
   "Name": "team2",
   "Description": "Example Namespace",
   "Meta": {
      "team-id": "574407f3-8b26-4c84-8e51-028bb8cbdd37"
   },
   "CreateIndex": 352,
   "ModifyIndex": 352
}
```