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I'd love to `kubectl run doom` and kill monsters when I'm supposed to be working

by alexchantavy 1y ago

MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
Why not both? https://github.com/storax/kubedoom https://github.com/storax/kubedoom
- merelysounds 1y ago
  There is also prior art, PSDoom: > The Doom process manager (PSDoom) is a modiﬁcation of the game Doom that displays representations of the processes running on a machine. Rather than using standard text-mode UNIX tools to view and manipulate processes, one surveys and shoots at a room full of bloodthirsty mutants, as shown in Figure 1. > Less than a week after the initial version of the code was written, the project’s website was attracting tens of thousands of visitors per day. Approximately 800 responses were e-mailed to the author or www.slashdot.org within the first two months. Of these responses 27% praised the project, 23% offered suggestions for improving PSDoom, 10% found the project funny, 10% reported technical problems, 8% related PSDoom to science fiction or to the future of interfaces, 1% disliked the project, and 0.6% were frightened by its implications. "Doom as an Interface for Process Management" (2002), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2522409_Doom_as_an_Interface_for_Process_Management https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2522409_Doom_as_an_...
  - EstIgnavus 1y ago
    I remember when this was announced. It had another humorous side effect - in Doom monsters can kill other monsters, which meant the PSDoom could result in processes randomly killing one another.
varispeed 1y ago
Services could have "location" data attached in their metadata and orchestrator could actually place them on the map. They could have some "personality" traits as well and e.g. to kill a service you could walk up to it and do the deed.
hu3 1y ago
What about Minecraft as a k8s admin tool? https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin

I'd love to `kubectl run doom` and kill monsters when I'm supposed to be working

MrDrMcCoy 1y ago

Why not both? https://github.com/storax/kubedoom https://github.com/storax/kubedoom

merelysounds 1y ago
There is also prior art, PSDoom: > The Doom process manager (PSDoom) is a modiﬁcation of the game Doom that displays representations of the processes running on a machine. Rather than using standard text-mode UNIX tools to view and manipulate processes, one surveys and shoots at a room full of bloodthirsty mutants, as shown in Figure 1. > Less than a week after the initial version of the code was written, the project’s website was attracting tens of thousands of visitors per day. Approximately 800 responses were e-mailed to the author or www.slashdot.org within the first two months. Of these responses 27% praised the project, 23% offered suggestions for improving PSDoom, 10% found the project funny, 10% reported technical problems, 8% related PSDoom to science fiction or to the future of interfaces, 1% disliked the project, and 0.6% were frightened by its implications. "Doom as an Interface for Process Management" (2002), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2522409_Doom_as_an_Interface_for_Process_Management https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2522409_Doom_as_an_...
- EstIgnavus 1y ago
  I remember when this was announced. It had another humorous side effect - in Doom monsters can kill other monsters, which meant the PSDoom could result in processes randomly killing one another.

varispeed 1y ago

Services could have "location" data attached in their metadata and orchestrator could actually place them on the map. They could have some "personality" traits as well and e.g. to kill a service you could walk up to it and do the deed.

hu3 1y ago

What about Minecraft as a k8s admin tool? https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin https://github.com/erjadi/kubecraftadmin