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

[Aaron Weitekamp]

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> 
> 
> On 04/14/2015 01:02 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Also proposing "container control" or containerctl ... which must have
> been in the back of my mind somewhere cause:
> https://github.com/aweiteka/containerctl :)

FWIW, I can make containerctl available very quickly. :) It's a dead bit of code.

> 
> but i still like it...
> 
> langdon
> 
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