With the following pod template configuration & as specified in the documentation I would expect the pod to be created in specified namespace. but it does not honor the namespace

 

podTemplate(label: 'builder-pod', containers: [
containerTemplate( name: 'jnlp',
                                 image: "${artifact_repo}/jenkins-slave",
                                 ttyEnabled: true
                           )
], volumes: [hostPathVolume(mountPath: '/var/run', hostPath: '/var/run')],

namespace: 'jenkins') { //podtemplate
               node('builder-pod') {
                            container('jnlp')

{                                               }

                                        }
                         }

 

the builder-pod is getting created in the default namespace instead of jenkins namespace