Velero: We need your ideas for renaming Heptio Ark!

[ncdc]

VMware has announced its intent to acquire Heptio, and as we join forces we are going to resolve any confusion / conflict with Arq (a different backup tool). We need your ideas to rename Heptio Ark—please jump in with suggestions that meet these criteria:

1. English word. No made-up terms or acronyms please. The name should be discoverable in an English dictionary.
2. Nautical theme. To be consistent with our other projects, it'd be ideal if the term had some nautical ties.

Final name selection requires legal clearance and a few other logistical bits, so we'll handle that internally. If we choose your submission, we will thank you with Heptio swag. Please submit your ideas BEFORE Monday, Dec. 17th. Thank you!

Please submit constructive names only - no Boaty McBoatface, etc. _thank you_

[carlisia]

• Anchor: Don't leave your clusters adrift / Never lose your clusters

• Barge

• Barca

[wwitzel3]

• gantry

[timothysc]

kivotós - ark in greek.

[carlisia]

Needs to be an english word!

[skriss]

• bulwark
• krate
• barque
• rachel (in Moby Dick, the ship that rescues Ishmael after the Pequod is sunk by Moby D.)
• clark (cluster arkive)
• embark (set out on a voyage; proceed despite dangers)

[ncdc]

Posting on behalf of Jeff Settle: dolly, after the cloned sheep

[wskulley]

lifeboat
preserver
dinghy
pinnace

[jonmeacham]

Drydock

[dharmab]

Something related to marine salvage seems approriate. ~_Vasa_~ or _Azorian_? Or _Jayhawk_?

[sfotony]

EPIRB

[jcrowthe]

• First Mate - the second in command of the ship
• Extremis - the point at which two vessels must break away to avoid a collision

[katiemorrissey]

Drogue /droʊɡ/
A device to slow a boat down in a storm so that it does not speed excessively down the slope of a wave and crash into the next one. It is generally constructed of heavy flexible material in the shape of a cone.

[ncdc]

Please keep the names constructive. We'll be deleting those that are not.

[stevesloka]

lagan: cargo jettisoned from ship but marked by buoys for recovery

[jbeda]

BlueMarlin -- the ship shipping ship

[detiber]

naval recovery ships: https://history.nasa.gov/ships.html

[cparedes]

Heptio Backup and Recovery Cruise Ship (tm)

[rdodev]

• Cove (a sheltered bay where ships go set anchor in bad weather)
• Rescue
• Crane (used to move containers on and off ships)

[opowbow]

Stern

Tide

Rum

[rdodev]

• Lifevest
• Flare
• Lighthouse

[ncdc]

@rdodev can't have Heptio in the name 😛

[rdodev]

@ncdc fixed :)

[jcrowthe]

• Scuttle - as in we're scuttling the remainder of the k8s ship in favor of a full disaster recovery

[wskulley]

Cutter

[kris-nova]

Sloop

[k8k]

Noah

[kris-nova]

Dingy!

[castrojo]

Pharos - the lighthouse of alexandria
Ikaros - sounds cool, and greek but not too greek?

[jcrowthe]

Waypoint

[MQasimSarfraz]

Concur

[xstevens]

• Tug
• Auxiliary

[bgulla]

Tender - boat, or a larger ship used to service or support other boats or ships, generally by transporting people and/or supplies to and from shore or another ship.

[xgerman]

Ahab

[lachie83]

embarcadero - pier in Spanish.

[nautalice]

Carpathia - the ship that responded to the Titanic's distress signal

[aimzOG]

Marine:
a) nautical themed
b) the military sends in the Marines when all hell breaks loose. They’re smaller than the rest of the branches because they’re specialized for more intense situations!- is a disaster happening? Send out your Marines!

Minesweeper
A vessel designed or equipped to clear areas of water of mines without necessaril detecting them first. It differs from a minehunter (q.v.), which is designed or equipped to detect and destroy individual mines.

Bailer
A device for removing water that has entered the boat.

Convoy
A group of ships traveling together for mutual support and protection.

[danderson]

Muster (assemble in a group, as when evacuating a ship). Has another more military meaning that may be unpalatable.

[blakedot]

deepocalypse

[tracymiranda]

felucca

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Felucca_at_sunset_on_the_River_Nile_-_panoramio.jpg

[dharmab]

@ncdc you should probably put "No BoatyMcboatface puns" in your top level seeing how popular that is (and how many you have to remove) 😆

[jaxxstorm]

Flotsam: the wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea.

The ship has sunk (cluster) but the cargo (resources) are still recoverable

[ncdc]

@dharmab will do

[mpatters72]

Davy Jones Locker - where all the lost things go
Lift Bag - raises sunk ships

[blakedot]

lifeboat

[danderson]

Lifeboat - ensuring the survival of a ship's most important cargo

[jessfraz]

In the name of Unix, I am going to go with “backup” I know super creative :)

[ncdc]

@jessfraz well played

[marcwickenden]

Shark

[ncdc]

except you left in too many letters: bkup

[danderson]

Voyage - short for Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), the nautical equivalent of black boxes in aircraft.

[aserhat]

stow - pack or store (an object) carefully and neatly in a particular place.

[vllry]

Cluster in a bottle? Bottle?

[chadmillard]

Bumpkin
Ahull

[homer6]

Dolly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

[blakedot]

Heptio Harbor - it's the safe place you keep your stuff

[maorfr]

Salvage!

[recollir]

lazarette

A lazarette is usually a storage locker used for gear or equipment a sailor or boatswain would use around the decks on a sailing vessel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarette

[stabby-r7]

Lifeboat

[scaranoj]

• kube-rescue
• PFD

[TamikoT]

• Arkive

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dadjokes

[Abdennebi]

Cleat : A piece of metal or wood having projecting arms or ends on which a rope can be wound or secured (from: https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=cleat)

[ChristianAlexander]

Astern - like astern propulsion (to back up a ship)

[wwitzel3]

loxodograph: An apparatus that records the course that a ship has travelled
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/loxodograph

[AlainRoy]

Haul
This is a nautical term that means "to steer a vessel closer to the direction of the window. It also gives a feeling for what the tool does with cluster data: it hauls to to a backup location, or to a new cluster. To be clear, this is not an acronym that starts with Heptio Ark. :)

[fabiorauber]

What about Caravel?

[dbowling]

Harbormaster. From Wikipedia: an official responsible for enforcing the regulations of a particular harbour or port, in order to ensure the safety of navigation, the security of the harbour and the correct operation of the port facilities.

Or a related term but slightly less naval, Quartermaster.

[drwpow]

Shore (or Shoring): metal or wood used at sea to repair a leak (also, to make it back to shore, a safe place)
Outrigger: stabilizing structure on ships

[TigerC10]

Fathom. In old maritime tradition, to measure the distance of how far your ship has travelled you'd drop a weight and then measure the rope that went off the ship by the arm-length.

[hhoover]

Pontoon
airtight hollow structures designed to provide buoyancy in water.

[lypht]

Floe

[csantanapr]

KimeMachine (ala Time Machine) :-)

[acbramley]

Something that isn't named the same as a very popular video game would be great :)

[bmess]

Pequod - The whaling ship in Moby Dick but also the rescue helicopter in Metal Gear V

[rikatz]

Heptio NOEH (Not Only Etcd Harmed), as Noeh also being the biblical person of the Ark (Noeh, Noah)

[rikatz]

Can be also only Noe (Not Only ETCD), as spelt in Portuguese :P

[csantanapr]

Kup (sounds like backup)

[Smithx10]

VMWare Kubernetes Backup?

[bgyss]

baleine

[rothgar]

keel - it's the part of the boat under water that keeps the boat upright. Keeling is another word for capsizing. It also already has a k in the name 😁

[karlkfi]

Freebooter - The pirate who knows where your k8s treasure is buried. The only one who can recover this plunder and restore your ship to its former glory.

Mascot: a parrot with an eye patch and a tricorner hat who says “Batten down the hatches! Keep a weather eye open, matey! A storm be comin’!”

[axw]

Starship, as in interstellar travel.

[hharnisc]

Mutiny

[jethr0null]

Ballast - heavy material, such as gravel, sand, iron, or lead, placed low in a vessel to improve its stability

[meganbruce]

Jet Set: Enable application migration from one cluster/cloud/environment to another. Ensure applications can always live in more than one place, for seamless backup and recovery.

[jaydeland]

Let's follow in the example of the Brits - Boaty Mcboatface
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/17/boaty-mcboatface-wins-poll-to-name-polar-research-vessel

In all seriousness:

1. Bunker - A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. (A place to store your container meta data so you can keep fueling your business when things faill
2. Keel - the backbone of a vessel (backups and failover are the backbone of reliable systems)
3. Tack: to change a vessel’s direction, or the new direction (The product helps you change tack easily when systems fail)

[dhananjaysathe]

Disaster at sea ? Brings to mind

• SOS
• Mayday
• lifebouy

[waltisfrozen]

Triton - Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He guided the Argonauts when they were lost and helped them find the sea. In short, he bailed people out, not unlike how Ark helps with cluster recovery.

[drewsmith]

Aft - boat rear

Buoy - An anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid

Founder - To sink

Gunwale - side edge of the boat to separate the hull

Halyard - Line used to hoist a spar or sail

Jib - Triangular sail projecting ahead of the mast

Transom - rear of hull connected sides of the boat

[justaugustus]

b4p - it's like backup, but k8s-ified! :)

[wic6]

Salvor :
a person or company involved in saving ships that have been sunk or damaged, and the goods inside them

[jhelbling]

Reio :)

[elisiano]

bark - Backup And Recovery for Kubernetes

And, according to wikipedia:

A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel [...]

[dobozysaurus]

Parthenogenesis! Plenty of marine life does that (sharks, marbled crayfish, etc).

[ncdc]

@dobozysaurus Mike....

[bbrundert]

Simply Dock (maintaining and repairing ships)
(I see "Drydock" on the list already)

[elisiano]

Simply Dock (maintaining and repairing ships)
(I see "Drydock" on the list already)

and how would you call someone using that product? :trollface: Docker? 🤣

[bbrundert]

Raft - like an inflatable emergency liferaft (instead of lifeboat)

[parthi-geo]

kaakha - _protection, last resort_

[evillgenius75]

Salvage - rescue (a wrecked or disabled ship or its cargo) from loss at sea

[parthi-geo]

Ahoy - A cry to draw attention
Banyan - a short period of rest and relaxation
Rake

[parthi-geo]

Scow

[dobozysaurus]

@ncdc Alternate suggestion, then: Ballast. Nothing provides stability to your system like a solid backup process.

[parthi-geo]

Baleen - filter-feeder system that works by sucking in a large amount of water first and then pushes out water while filtering food sources. The feature I like in Ark is its ability to filter a subset of Kubernetes resources that matter to get the job done.

[mobeus1]

• V-Kraken - It will take your data to the bottom of the sea only to be summoned by a horde of undead. (like the kraken from Pirates of the Caribbean)
  
  
  
  • Anchor - to keep with the nautical nonsense theme of k8s + VMware Harbor
  
  
• Motoko - from Ghost in the Shell
• Artemis - because meh

[rguske]

Lifebelt - I saw Lifebuoy already...and probably it´s too dramatically
Pearl

[jenciso]

kbote = kubernetes + bote (lifeboat in spanish)

[mslocrian]

Flugel - the wing on which you fly your backups to the cloud.

[mauilion]

Klone or Kopy, Ark is more than backup it can also be used as a templating tools for resources that you want to deploy.
+1 on Tack as well.

[dharmab]

Ironclad - armor plating applied to 19th century warships to improve their durability

[cormachogan]

Flotsam - refers to ship wreckage and what remains of the cargo

[renatoassis01]

Caravel - The caravel was a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese

[cantbewong]

ark rename suggestion: Arise or Arise!

name emphasizes recovery stage of a backup - the most import function of what Ark does
sorry not really nautical theme but it does have an interesting Kubernetes + Heptio tie in.
Kubernetes used an "easter egg" to the seven of nine character from a star trek series related to the Borg race. Heptio continued the number 7 theme.
According to Wikipedia's Chinese numerology article:
The number 7 (七, pinyin: qī) in Mandarin sounds like "even" in Mandarin (齊, pinyin: qí), so it is a good number for relationships. It also sounds like "arise" (起, pinyin: qǐ)

[carlisia]

Phoenix

[stigsb]

Scuba - SCuba Used to Be Ark

[nodox]

Names:

• arc
• tangent
• radix
• feedbk
• noah
• pompeii

[spiffxp]

Celeste - The Mary Celeste was a famous ghost ship

[TamikoT]

shArk 🦈 (and always with that casing)

[rarean]

Vitamin,
Vitamins like C,D,B12 help recover from scurvy, rickets, beriberi and other illnesses common with sailors 😀

[agolomoodysaada]

Plankton

Bark and Shark are by far the best two 🤣

[geosoft1]

Dart (DisAster Recovery Tool). Also has some alternative meanings including nautical.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms

[tenthirtyam]

Coxswain

[tohjustin]

Since Kubernetes is a Greek term for _"governor"_, _"helmsman"_ or _"captain"_, we'll have an Admiral that give commands to the ship's helmsman when disaster strikes 😅

or we can follow Kubernetes's Greek 🇬🇷 + Nautical 🚢 theme:

Navarch (Greek: ναύαρχος) - Greek word meaning "leader of the ships", which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral.

[opowbow]

Backstop -

political in the EU currently ; positive baseball connotations ; and ..from a water perspective...when rowing - before you set off - you sit at "backstops" balance the boat ...and then go.....

[mark-j-chilvers]

Amber

[JessicaGreben]

koast-guard

watchkeep

buoy

beacon

[ricksevans]

marina

[ricksevans]

quay

[ricksevans]

landing

[HerrmannHinz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste

first submarine in the Mariana Trench - maybe there are a cuttle, erm couple of more ideas in the article.

[HerrmannHinz]

moar ship - maybe a little pathetic.

https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar

[gitmedur]

Poseidon

[ype]

RRS Sir David Attenborough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Naming_poll

[cpuguy83]

icekube