Collect Deployment ID (NGF)

[mpstefan]

As a maintainer of NGF
I want to collect a deployment identifier from all participating NGF installations
So that I can correlate telemetry data with every unique installation of NGF even if they exist on the same cluster.

Acceptance

• The deployment identifier does not contain any characters or information that can reveal the identity of the installer.
• The deployment identifier is highly likely to be unique across all Kubernetes deployments.

[bjee19]

The deployment identifier is highly likely to be unique across all Kubernetes deployments.

This refers to the same cluster right? Meaning, the deployment identifier is likely to be unique across all other deployments in the same cluster? In addition, we only really care about other NGF deployments in the same cluster right?

Was just thinking of an approach to this issue: does getting the name of the deployment and running it through a hash function work?

[mpstefan]

I would say we want the deployment id to be unique across all Kubernetes deployments, as stated, because when we want to look at stats for unique deployments vs clusters, we won't be able to do that easily if deployments aren't unique across clusters.

[pleshakov]

I would say we want the deployment id to be unique across all Kubernetes deployments, as stated, because when we want to look at stats for unique deployments vs clusters, we won't be able to do that easily if deployments aren't unique across clusters.

because the cluster ID is unique, even if the deployment ID is not unique among clusters, the combination of cluster ID with deployment ID will be unique though