# Environments

A Planeo Environment essentially maps to an auto-generated Kubernetes namespace, and allows users to specify a usage context for a set of services. 

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Specify a name, a usage and tie it to the cluster created earlier. Once the namespace has been provisioned in the specified cluster, the environment will be marked as "ready"

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