ADS instance identity

ADS automatically produces an ADS identity that uniquely defines the current ADS instance. The format of this identity is a randomly generated string of 8 hexadecimal digits following the constant prefix default.

default-<xxxxxxxx>

The random part is updated after each restart of the ADS service.

However, you can customize the ADS instance identity by either setting a constant identity, or by defining a prefix proceeding the random generated part. In order to do this, you have to configure the ADS deployment.yaml file with one of the following options:

Constant identity:

 identity:
    constant: <string>

This will set ADS to have a constant value as an identity. This constant id will not change during each restart of the ADS service.

Prefix identity:

identity:
   prefix: <string>

This option generates an identity composed of a random string of 8 hexadecimal digits following the configured string prefix. The random section of the id is updated during each restart of the ADS service.

Important

The value of the constant and prefix properties can include any alphanumeric character and/or the '-' and '_' characters. However, the length of the constant or the prefix should not exceed 100 characters.

You can find Information about your generated ADS instance id in the logs of ADS via the endpoint address interface as described in System information.