Change provider namespace from override to default

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 ## 0.23.2 (Unreleased)
 
+### Important
+
+This release changes the behavior of the provider namespace flag introduced in `0.23.0`.
+Previously, this flag was treated as an override, which ignored namespace values set
+directly on resources. Now, the flag is a default, and will only set the namespace if one
+is not already set. **This may cause resources to be recreated!**
+
 ### Major changes
 
 -   BREAKING: Change the recently added `transformations` callback in Python to match JavaScript API (https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/pull/575)

sdk/nodejs/provider.ts

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ export interface ProviderArgs {
     readonly kubeconfig?: pulumi.Input<string>;
     /**
      * If present, the default namespace to use. This flag is ignored for cluster-scoped resources.
+     * Note: if .metadata.namespace is set on a resource, that value takes precedence over the provider default.
      */
     readonly namespace?: pulumi.Input<string>;
 }

sdk/python/pulumi_kubernetes/provider.py

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ def __init__(self,
                                              If this is set, this config will be used instead of $KUBECONFIG.
         :param pulumi.Input[str] namespace: If present, the default namespace to use.
                                             This flag is ignored for cluster-scoped resources.
+                                            Note: if .metadata.namespace is set on a resource, that value takes
+                                            precedence over the provider default.
         """
         __props__ = {
             "cluster": cluster,