[Container-tools] Naming the "Container App Spec and Libraries" project

John Mark Walker jowalker at redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 17:02:09 UTC 2015


Hey gang,

Because there's an obvious namespace collision between CoreOS' appc efforts and our own container app spec, I've been wondering what to name our thing. Here are some potential names. Vote on 1 or submit your own:

- supernetes - I originally liked this, but then realized it doesn't send a realistic message. Connotes some type of orchestration that sits "above" k8s. I don't think that's what we're creating. I include it here for completeness. 

- intercon - short for "inter-container" - because what we're doing is about defining multi-container applications that can utilize a number of "providers" and host environments. 

All the other names I'm thinking about are variations on this theme:

- interpod - same as above, except adopting the term "pod" from the k8s universe

- hyperpod, hypercon - same theme as above, just using a different term of art to connote "more than one pod" 


I kind of like intercon, although I could see arguments for something else.

Once we have a name, we need to figure out where it lives. I don't think it belongs under the Project Atomic org on github. 

github.com/intercon is available :) 

-JM


-JM





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