UUID

External

• https://www.8bitmen.com/uuid-guid-oversimplified-are-they-really-unique/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

Internal

• uuidgen
• Python UUID
• UUID in Go

Overview

UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier, and are standardized as ISO/IEC 9834-8 and as ITU-T X.667. Kubernetes UIDs are UUIDs.