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Setting and using up MAAS - JOID - OPNFV Wiki - https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/joid/Setting+and+using+up+MAAS

Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju | Ubuntu blog - https://blog.ubuntu.com/2016/01/31/nodes-networking-deploying-openstack-on-maas-1-9-with-juju

pronouncebale machine names

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.

Ref: Bug #1287224 “MAAS random generated hostnames are not pronouncea...” : Bugs : MAAS - https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1287224