diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/create-forgejo-namespace.yml b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/create-forgejo-namespace.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eebbd08fcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/create-forgejo-namespace.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+- name: Generate the forgejo-namespace.yml from template
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: "forgejo-namespace.yml.j2"
+    dest: "/root/ocp4/openshift-apps/forgejo/forgejo-namespace.yml"
+    mode: "0770"
+
+- name: Deploy the forgejo-namespace.yml config
+  kubernetes.core.k8s:
+    state: present
+    src: "/root/ocp4/openshift-apps/forgejo/forgejo-namespace.yml"
diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/main.yml
index b1e1316aa0..bd66fe2448 100644
--- a/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/tasks/main.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     path: "/root/ocp4/openshift-apps/forgejo/"
     state: directory
 
+- include_tasks: create-forgejo-namespace.yml
 - include_tasks: create-forgejo-pvc.yml
 - include_tasks: create-postgres-operator-config.yml
 #- include_tasks: deploy-valkey.yml
diff --git a/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/templates/forgejo-namespace.yml.j2 b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/templates/forgejo-namespace.yml.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f3a27274d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/openshift-apps/forgejo/templates/forgejo-namespace.yml.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Namespace
+metadata:
+  name: "forgejo"