[Bug 1287224] [NEW] pronounceable machine names in MAAS

[Dustin Kirkland ]

Public bug reported:

I understand that sabdfl specifically requested 5-character machine
names in MAAS (rather than MAC or IP based names like AWS).

I'd like to make an additional request from a usability perspective...
Can we please make the MAAS machine names pronounceable?  It's really,
really difficult to talk about machines in a cluster when the name is
"kslnw" or "xpxrqm".

Here's a suggestion:

 $ sudo apt-get install wamerican
 $ shuf -n 1 /usr/share/dict/american-english | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z]//g'

That gives much more readable, though still random, machine names.  That
dictionary has 100K words in it.  There's also wbritish, wcanadian.  See
the scowl source package or http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ for more
information.

** Affects: maas (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: micro-cluster

** Tags added: micro-cluster

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