Is there a way to get ordinal index of a pod with in kubernetes statefulset configuration file?

Question

We are on Kubernetes 1.9.0 and wonder if there is way to access an "ordinal index" of a pod with in its statefulset configuration file. We like to dynamically assign a value (that's derived from the ordinal index) to the pod's label and later use it for setting pod affinity (or antiaffinity) under spec.

Alternatively, is the pod's instance name available with in statefulset configfile? If so, we can hopefully extract ordinal index from it and dynamically assign to a label (for later use for affinity).

Answer 1

You could essentially get the unique name of your pod in statefulset as an environment variable, you have to extract the ordinal index from it though

In container's spec:

env:
  - name: cluster.name
    value: k8s-logs
  - name: node.name
    valueFrom:
      fieldRef:
        fieldPath: metadata.name