diff --git a/pkg/constants/metadata.go b/pkg/constants/metadata.go
index aab78bf6a..30c95241f 100644
--- a/pkg/constants/metadata.go
+++ b/pkg/constants/metadata.go
@@ -77,4 +77,8 @@ const (
 	// Only secrets with 'true' value will be mount as pull secret
 	// Should be assigned to secrets with type docker config types (kubernetes.io/dockercfg and kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson)
 	DevWorkspacePullSecretLabel = "controller.devfile.io/devworkspace_pullsecret"
+
+	// NamespacedConfigLabelKey is a label applied to configmaps to mark them as a configuration for all DevWorkspaces in
+	// the current namespace.
+	NamespacedConfigLabelKey = "controller.devfile.io/namespaced-config"
 )
diff --git a/pkg/provision/config/config.go b/pkg/provision/config/config.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad03c7812
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/provision/config/config.go
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Red Hat, Inc.
+// This program and the accompanying materials are made
+// available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
+// which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+//
+// Contributors:
+//   Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+//
+
+package config
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
+
+	"github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/controllers/workspace/provision"
+	"github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/pkg/constants"
+)
+
+const (
+	commonPVCSizeKey = "commonPVCSize"
+)
+
+type NamespacedConfig struct {
+	CommonPVCSize string
+}
+
+// ReadNamespacedConfig reads the per-namespace DevWorkspace configmap and returns it as a struct. If there are
+// no valid configmaps in the specified namespace, returns (nil, nil). If there are multiple configmaps with the
+// per-namespace configmap label, returns an error.
+func ReadNamespacedConfig(namespace string, api provision.ClusterAPI) (*NamespacedConfig, error) {
+	cmList := &corev1.ConfigMapList{}
+	labelSelector, err := labels.Parse(fmt.Sprintf("%s=true", constants.NamespacedConfigLabelKey))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	selector := &client.ListOptions{
+		Namespace:     namespace,
+		LabelSelector: labelSelector,
+	}
+	err = api.Client.List(api.Ctx, cmList, selector)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	cms := cmList.Items
+	if len(cms) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	} else if len(cms) > 1 {
+		var cmNames []string
+		for _, cm := range cms {
+			cmNames = append(cmNames, cm.Name)
+		}
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("multiple per-namespace configs found: %s", strings.Join(cmNames, ", "))
+	}
+
+	cm := cms[0]
+	if cm.Data == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	return &NamespacedConfig{
+		CommonPVCSize: cm.Data[commonPVCSizeKey],
+	}, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/provision/storage/commonStorage_test.go b/pkg/provision/storage/commonStorage_test.go
index c9fc03487..439691d77 100644
--- a/pkg/provision/storage/commonStorage_test.go
+++ b/pkg/provision/storage/commonStorage_test.go
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ func TestRewriteContainerVolumeMountsForCommonStorageClass(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := loadAllTestCasesOrPanic(t, "testdata/common-storage")
 	setupControllerCfg()
 	commonStorage := CommonStorageProvisioner{}
-	commonPVC, err := getCommonPVCSpec("test-namespace")
+	commonPVC, err := getCommonPVCSpec("test-namespace", "1Gi")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Failure during setup: %s", err)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/provision/storage/shared.go b/pkg/provision/storage/shared.go
index d00f7c991..3fe2e4ff5 100644
--- a/pkg/provision/storage/shared.go
+++ b/pkg/provision/storage/shared.go
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/pkg/constants"
 	devfileConstants "github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/pkg/library/constants"
 	containerlib "github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/pkg/library/container"
+	nsconfig "github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator/pkg/provision/config"
 
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 )
 
-func getCommonPVCSpec(namespace string) (*corev1.PersistentVolumeClaim, error) {
-	pvcStorageQuantity, err := resource.ParseQuantity(constants.PVCStorageSize)
+func getCommonPVCSpec(namespace string, size string) (*corev1.PersistentVolumeClaim, error) {
+	pvcStorageQuantity, err := resource.ParseQuantity(size)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -79,7 +80,16 @@ func needsStorage(workspace *dw.DevWorkspaceTemplateSpec) bool {
 }
 
 func syncCommonPVC(namespace string, clusterAPI provision.ClusterAPI) (*corev1.PersistentVolumeClaim, error) {
-	pvc, err := getCommonPVCSpec(namespace)
+	namespacedConfig, err := nsconfig.ReadNamespacedConfig(namespace, clusterAPI)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to read namespace-specific configuration: %w", err)
+	}
+	pvcSize := constants.PVCStorageSize
+	if namespacedConfig != nil && namespacedConfig.CommonPVCSize != "" {
+		pvcSize = namespacedConfig.CommonPVCSize
+	}
+
+	pvc, err := getCommonPVCSpec(namespace, pvcSize)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}