diff --git a/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/cluster-autoscaler/variables.irsa.auto.tfvars b/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/cluster-autoscaler/variables.irsa.auto.tfvars
index 7a5389c..902abc8 100644
--- a/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/cluster-autoscaler/variables.irsa.auto.tfvars
+++ b/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/cluster-autoscaler/variables.irsa.auto.tfvars
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 namespace = "kube-system"
+namespace_short = ""
 name      = "cluster-autoscaler"
diff --git a/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/variables.irsa.tf b/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/variables.irsa.tf
index 75e3046..63f3ab1 100644
--- a/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/variables.irsa.tf
+++ b/examples/full-cluster/irsa-roles/variables.irsa.tf
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ variable "namespace" {
   type        = string
 }
 
+variable "namespace_short" {
+  description = "K8S namespace for IAM Role for Service Account (per-pod), short version (without the cluster name) to keep the role name under 64 characters"
+  type        = string
+}
+
 variable "name" {
   description = "K8S service names for IAM Role for Service Account (per-pod)"
   type        = string