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Why the name quadlets? Classical definition: > A word consisting of four bytes Quad implies 4 something or rather. What does it refer to here? 4 sections of
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
Why the name quadlets?
Classical definition:
> A word consisting of four bytes
Quad implies 4 something or rather.
What does it refer to here?
4 sections of configuration?
- timenova 3y agoMaybe they mean Quadrant.
- twic 3y ago> The original Quadlet repository describes Quadlet this way: > What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet? > A quadlet So it's based on reinterpreting the root "kuber-" which ultimately means something"to do with "turn", as "cube", and then metaphorically reducing a cube to a square.
- dizhn 3y agoI thought it was half a K8s.
- goku12 3y agoThey squashed kubelet, not K8s. By that, they probably mean that they got rid of the kubelet and delegated its functionality to systemd (which is already there besides the kubelet if the node uses systemd based distro). Note that quadlet is also capable of creating services based on K8s manifest.
- dizhn 3y agoYour explanation makes sense. Thanks.
- goku12 3y agoAn article [1] from Redhat has this excerpt: > The original Quadlet repository describes Quadlet this way: >> What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet? A quadlet [1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
- whalesalad 3y agoprogrammers are absolutely terrible at naming things
- alexlarsson 3y agoA quad is commonly used in the 3D graphics world to mean a rectangle (https://www.selfcad.com/blog/quads-in-3d-a-complete-guide https://www.selfcad.com/blog/quads-in-3d-a-complete-guide), so the idea is that we go "kubelet" -reinterpret-> "cubelet" -flatten it-> "quadlet".