Is it possible to set pod hostname...?

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Hello World!

I’m working with a deployment manifest with more than 3 replicas, is it possible to set pod hostname dynamically and then pass it as Environment variable to be consumed by the application???

Kubernetes version: 1.13
Cloud being used: AWS EKS

thanks :slight_smile:

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Pod have a hostname field. You can read your own hostname by running “hostname”.

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I’m answering my own question for future readers

Kubernetes already set hostname dynamically and it’s ready to be “consumed” right away.
What I did was to create a shell script with the command hostname in it and created the desired configuration file with the value of the previous command. NOTE: this will only work in a Linux container