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So question I've always had -- where does the 8 in k8s come from? It has never been self-evident for me :/

by sam0x17 6y ago

soneil 6y ago
It’s a contraction of the inner 8 letters. In the same vein as i18n.
- b0afc375b5 6y ago
  Or a11y for accessibility.
  - gitgud 6y ago
    I feel like an idiot for not knowing this!! I assumed it was a meaningless name that some standard's body assigned, like ISO9000 or AS200
- sam0x17 6y ago
  And now I understand why i18n is named the way it is!!!!! This has been very illuminating
OJFord 6y ago
This is such a common question that I was motivated to add it to the Wikipedia page. Unfortunately, someone decided to revert it. 'k8s' is a numeronym: the '8' denotes eight omitted letters ('ubernete'). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/943694377 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/943694377
- MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
  > someone decided to revert it The Wikipedia consensus protocol works like this: The autist with the most free time and the biggest urge to control wins. You'll have to out-edit the guy who made that specific page his fiefdom and Raison d'être. Good that you tried, I've decided its not for me.
  - ccmcarey 6y ago
    Correct, but there's no need to use autism as an insult or imply (only) they do that.
    - MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
      Exactly nobody asked for your virtue signalling.
- gearhart 6y ago
  I went to go and re-instate your edit. When I got there, exactly where it was, someone's now put in a citation to an article that explains the answer perfectly: https://medium.com/@rothgar/why-kubernetes-is-abbreviated-k8s-905289405a3c https://medium.com/@rothgar/why-kubernetes-is-abbreviated-k8... Wikipedia is great, and people like you make it that way, thank you :)
  - ksec 6y ago
    Yes, I think link [1] is better at showing its history. Personally I was exposed to e10s from Firefox before leaning about the who a11y and all other xNumberx Terms. [1] http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html
  - OJFord 6y ago
    That was there when I added it, I think I thought it was just a citation for it being referred to as 'k8s'. I left the citation there but added to '(commonly stylized as k8s', ', a [[numeronym]]'. It was removed for being 'distracting trivia': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/945525973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/945525973 :shrug: I thought it was pretty innocuous, succinctly explaining it and linking to a page with more examples for those curious. I suppose the pace would be too much slower, but I really wish Wikipedia had more of a 'maintainer'-'change request' model (a la GitHub etc. or even mailing lists) sometimes, so edits had to actually be justified and approved. StackExchange has a reasonable compromise I suppose - you're automatically a 'maintainer' with certain (quite low) karma, and until then your changes are proposed and can be (but generally not) justified per se, and approved by someone who does have sufficient points; then you get some points if its approved.

So question I've always had -- where does the 8 in k8s come from? It has never been self-evident for me :/

soneil 6y ago

It’s a contraction of the inner 8 letters. In the same vein as i18n.

b0afc375b5 6y ago
Or a11y for accessibility.
- gitgud 6y ago
  I feel like an idiot for not knowing this!! I assumed it was a meaningless name that some standard's body assigned, like ISO9000 or AS200
sam0x17 6y ago
And now I understand why i18n is named the way it is!!!!! This has been very illuminating

OJFord 6y ago

This is such a common question that I was motivated to add it to the Wikipedia page. Unfortunately, someone decided to revert it. 'k8s' is a numeronym: the '8' denotes eight omitted letters ('ubernete'). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/943694377 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/943694377

MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
> someone decided to revert it The Wikipedia consensus protocol works like this: The autist with the most free time and the biggest urge to control wins. You'll have to out-edit the guy who made that specific page his fiefdom and Raison d'être. Good that you tried, I've decided its not for me.
- ccmcarey 6y ago
  Correct, but there's no need to use autism as an insult or imply (only) they do that.
  - MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
    Exactly nobody asked for your virtue signalling.
gearhart 6y ago
I went to go and re-instate your edit. When I got there, exactly where it was, someone's now put in a citation to an article that explains the answer perfectly: https://medium.com/@rothgar/why-kubernetes-is-abbreviated-k8s-905289405a3c https://medium.com/@rothgar/why-kubernetes-is-abbreviated-k8... Wikipedia is great, and people like you make it that way, thank you :)
- ksec 6y ago
  Yes, I think link [1] is better at showing its history. Personally I was exposed to e10s from Firefox before leaning about the who a11y and all other xNumberx Terms. [1] http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html
- OJFord 6y ago
  That was there when I added it, I think I thought it was just a citation for it being referred to as 'k8s'. I left the citation there but added to '(commonly stylized as k8s', ', a [[numeronym]]'. It was removed for being 'distracting trivia': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/945525973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/945525973 :shrug: I thought it was pretty innocuous, succinctly explaining it and linking to a page with more examples for those curious. I suppose the pace would be too much slower, but I really wish Wikipedia had more of a 'maintainer'-'change request' model (a la GitHub etc. or even mailing lists) sometimes, so edits had to actually be justified and approved. StackExchange has a reasonable compromise I suppose - you're automatically a 'maintainer' with certain (quite low) karma, and until then your changes are proposed and can be (but generally not) justified per se, and approved by someone who does have sufficient points; then you get some points if its approved.