Use rand from apimachinery to avoid seeding rng every time

pkg/common/common.go

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ package common
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"math/rand"
 
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/rand"
 	cmdutil "k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/util"
 )
 
@@ -44,9 +44,8 @@ const (
 )
 
 // RandomStr returns an eight-digit (with leading zeros) string of a
-// random number seeded with the parameter.
-func RandomStr(seed int64) string {
-	rand.Seed(seed)
+// random number.
+func RandomStr() string {
 	randomInt := rand.Intn(maxRandInt) // nolint:gosec
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%08d", randomInt)
 }

pkg/config/initoptions.go

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ func fileExists(path string) bool {
 func (i *InitOptions) fillInValues() string {
 	now := time.Now()
 	nowStr := now.Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05 MST")
-	randomSuffix := common.RandomStr(now.UTC().UnixNano())
+	randomSuffix := common.RandomStr()
 	manifestStr := i.Template
 	klog.V(4).Infof("namespace/inventory-id: %s/%s", i.Namespace, i.InventoryID)
 	manifestStr = strings.ReplaceAll(manifestStr, "<DATETIME>", nowStr)

pkg/inventory/inventory.go

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ package inventory
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
@@ -174,8 +173,7 @@ func fixLegacyInventoryName(obj *unstructured.Unstructured) error {
 	name := accessor.GetName()
 	if obj.GetName() == legacyInvName || name == legacyInvName {
 		klog.V(4).Infof("renaming legacy inventory name")
-		seed := time.Now().UTC().UnixNano()
-		randomSuffix := common.RandomStr(seed)
+		randomSuffix := common.RandomStr()
 		return addSuffixToName(obj, randomSuffix)
 	}
 	return nil

test/e2e/common_test.go

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ package e2e
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 	appsv1 "k8s.io/api/apps/v1"
@@ -22,8 +21,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 func randomString(prefix string) string {
-	seed := time.Now().UTC().UnixNano()
-	randomSuffix := common.RandomStr(seed)
+	randomSuffix := common.RandomStr()
 	return fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", prefix, randomSuffix)
 }