Experimental function to get a deploy name that's unlikely to collide on IBM Cloud

get_deploy_name.sh

#!/bin/bash
  
function get_deploy_name {
    uuid="$1"
    shift

    old_ifs="$IFS"
    IFS='_'
    name="$*"
    IFS=$old_ifs

    unique_name="${name}_${uuid}"

    short_hash=$(echo ${unique_name} | git hash-object --stdin | head -c 7)

    deploy_name="$(echo ${name} | head -c 43)${short_hash}"
    echo $deploy_name
}

echo $(get_deploy_name $(uuidgen) blockchain-20180709151348280 some-deployable-thing)