Can I use pools in different namespaces ？

[huaqing1994]

User Story

As a developer I would like to use an IPPool in other namespace in CAPM3 for Metal3Clusters in different namespaces can be associated with a common IPPool.

Detailed Description

I found that when filling IPPool in Metal3DataTemplate, you can only fill in name, not namespace.
The need to allow IPPools with different namespaces should be reasonable, like corev1.SecretReference and corev1.ObjectReference.
I don't know what the reason for this design is, if anyone knows, thanks for letting me know. And I hope this can be improved in the future.

Thank you all! :)

/kind feature

[Rozzii]

The feature you describe here @huaqing1994 makes sense, but as far as I know k8s operators could be configured to watch either 1 namespace or all namespaces thus the use-case you describe where the operator is able to selectively access resources in different namespaces might not be supported. But I am not an expert in this topic so I hope others from the community can add extra info here.

[mboukhalfa]

There might be also issue with ownerReference since it can only point to resource in the same namespace or cluster-wide resource as already investigated here
#795 (comment)

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