Is it just me or do other people also read the name as `chaos`?
I guess with k8s one hard part is to get it well-configured up and running and the other to maintain it and adjust to the project's needs. But seems the project tries to improve the whole experience. Good luck (honestly)!
Pronouncing kubernetes was a problem for me as a greek (greek way would be kee-vaer-nee-tees and it means governor). Getting my mind to use the english word tripped me out, and using the greek pronunciation didn't make sense to anybody.
Since trying to say "kubernetes" just trips my mind, I say kubernet (coobearnet). And use the same term "kubernet" for both "kubernetes" and the "k8s" shortcut.
Kubernet = "k for graph (eg k-anonymity, k-neighbor search), uber for awesome, net for network!" It's a very descriptive and easy to pronounce/memorize name that frees my mind from the greek pompousness.
PS. k0s, I would pronounce "Cause" or maybe... (to make a silly bloodborne reference) Kos, some say Kosm
As a native Hebrew speaker, when I was first exposed to Kubernetes years ago I could not have overlooked the resemblance to the Hebrew word "kbarnit" which has the same meaning. I'm sure the Greek word which inspired the authors and the Hebrew word share origins (don't know which predates the other), but in this case the Hebrew word happens to sound closer to the common pronunciation which helped me pick it up quite intuitively
I read it as k-aughts and k8s as k-eights, and all my juniors have at first as well. These aren't great abbreviations, we just get used to them. My main issue with this project is that if you want to use k8s and are using it, you want some measure of control. Unless you are just using it "because", your business goals intersect with the k8s philosophy and you need some element of it. In every case I have deployed it in there is a lot of fine tuning.
k8s always tripped me up, personally. I always mentally read it as "k-ubereats" (kind of like "k-means"), so it always effectively started with a "u" to me.
I guess with k8s one hard part is to get it well-configured up and running and the other to maintain it and adjust to the project's needs. But seems the project tries to improve the whole experience. Good luck (honestly)!