K3s: How do you pronounce the "k3s"?

Created on 27 Feb 2019  ·  20Comments  ·  Source: k3s-io/k3s

I remember seeing k3s can be expressed as k "ate" s somewhere on ibuildthecloud/k3s before, which is the exactly same pronunciation as k8s(k "eight" s), but I couldn't find it on any pages now 👀

Is it kates, or kes like leet language?

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I likes "Kubes" since "K 3 (ube) S" matches what K8S (k UBERNETE s).

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k3s, 比k8s少5s

Guys, I'm asking how to pronounce the name. I know why it's written as k3s 😂

😂 Sorry for misunderstanding your meaning, the pronunciation of "k3s" seems to require rancher official to answer.

maybe kbeds :) kubernetes for embeded device

Kubes, surely?

It's like lottery haha

Someone on HN suggested Kuberne_tres_. 😂

Maybe like "K3", as if it didn't have an "s"?

Kes or keys

I feel like the community should decide. I vote for Boaty McBoatFace.

...wouldn't it just be k-threes? Although kubernetres is funny. 👍
k-threes fits with the whole "five less than eight" idea.

I likes "Kubes" since "K 3 (ube) S" matches what K8S (k UBERNETE s).

How do you vote?

I vote for Kubes.
The reasons are:

  1. 3-ube matches the word-building of 8-ubernete
  2. Kubes is easy to pronounce and seems like an abbreviation of Kubernetes
  3. it's literally meaningful to represent itself as a variant of Kubernetes

My vote is for :
"Kay" "Three" "Ess"

Since kubernetes is Greek why not stick with the theme
κυβερνήτης (10 Letters) -> kubernetes, means Governor, Helmsman, Captain
κύβος (5 letters) -> kubos, means Cube

k8s is often pronounced as kates or k 8 s
k3s could be pronounced keys but since I usually go with k 8 s I'll probably say k 3 s

Looks like Kubes was the most voted?

@ibuildthecloud

Just wanted to speak out against "Kubes" to differentiate it from "Qubes".

At least while talking to myself I'm gonna call it tetrahedrons, because in an odd way...

Qubes : K3s
VMs : containers
cubes : tetrahedrons (there's a little less to them)

So strange that there's still no canonical pronunciation. At least the dev team should call it some way when talking about it...

P.S.: I like Kubes [kjuːbs],

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