Kname

Combine several passions and this is what comes out of it.

I am a big fan of mixology, fitness and the great outdoors. One day I decided I hated coming up with names for my Kubernetes clusters as I test stuff, and so Kname was born.

What is this?

Kname is a simple CLI that you can use to spit out a random name based on the theme you choose. You can use to name whatever, but I use it for Kubernetes cluster names as I have a difficult time coming up with them.

Installing

Like any other go package.

go get github.com/sharepointoscar/kname

Using Jenkins X CLI

I use Jenkins X on GKE and EKS (soon AKS), but here is how I quickly create my cluster passing the random name.

jx create cluster gke --skip-installation -n $(kname generate-name --theme cocktails)

GCloud CLI usage

If you are using the gcloud CLI, you can just execute the following (add whatever other flags you want)

gcloud container clusters create $(kname generate-name --theme yoga)

eksctl CLI usage

eksctl create cluster --name $(kname generate-name --theme national-parks)