{"_id":"q-en-kubernetes-8e3c1b5434af24681841213f17bfec0a8ba7d713665fc9b8d51a3bd3e2bb8fcb","text":"A temporary workaround is to seed our random number generators. But really, apiserver should assign a guaranteed-unique identifier upon resource creation.\nInternally we use RFC4122 UUIDs for identifying pods. Any objections to making this part of the pod setup? I guess it would really be a string (like \"id\") but with the strong suggestion that it be an encoded UUID. Or we could use docker-style 256 bit randoms, but that might get confusing. If we further lock down container names to RFC1035 labels, we can use