DNSSanitize santizies the name string to make it usable in a DNS name.

DockerSanitize sanitizes the name string (which is assumed to be a ValidName) to make it usable as a docker image name (no spaces and special chars other than - and .

Get the external address with port when running under kubernetes.

Get the shard index based on the key and number of shards.

Get the time to wait based on the interval and offset.

alphanumeric plus -_.

HostnameSanitize makes a valid hostname, for which the rules are the same as DNSSanitize, but it cannot end in '-' and cannot be > 63 digits.

IsLatitudeValid checks that the latitude is within accepted ranges.

IsLongitudeValid checks that the longitude is within accepted ranges.

open opens the specified URL in the default browser of the user.

This is for figuring out the "external" address when running under kubernetes, which is really the internal CNI address that containers can use to talk to each other.

Used for search queries to specify a time range.