title: Is there a way to get ordinal index of a pod with in kubernetes statefulset configuration file?
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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).</p>