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Hey there. I'm trying to understand how to get Pulumi to create a namespace when I'm applying a Kubernetes chart.

I have the following image but I need the namespace to be created before the chart is deployed (since it is deployed in the namespace).

I can't seem to find any examples of how to do this online.

I'm not sure if I am doing this right, so clarification would be preferable.

All I did was the following.

```
new k8s.core.v1.Namespace(...)

new helm.v2.Chart(...)
```

I did not add any references to the namespace, other than the name of the namespace, to the chart. No variables where shared.

I was given this plan.

That plan looks expected given the code.  If you want the chart to deploy into the namespace, you would need to pass `values: { ... }` and include the namespace name in the chart.

You can see examples of this here:  <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/735a7116f0dcfed83ddaee986cc2c9ac96fec894/aws-ts-eks-hello-world/index.ts>

If there is no real dependency, but you still want these to be sceduled one after the other - you can use `dependsOn: namespace` in the `Chart`.