Note: This is a just-for-fun-project, made for no other reasons than me obviously having nothing better to do.

spacicon is a small, Python-based web service that serves procedurally generated, space- and alien-themed avatars.

Quick and easy:

$ docker run -d --name spacicon -p 80:5000 quay.io/martinhelmich/spacicon

With Redis caching:

$ docker run -d --name spacicon-redis redis
$ docker run -d --name spacicon -p 80:5000 --link redis:redis -e CACHE_TYPE=redis -e CACHE_REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/1 quay.io/martinhelmich/spacicon

Using Helm:

$ helm repo add martinhelmich https://martin-helmich.github.io/helm-charts
$ helm install martinhelmich/spacicon

Get a procedurally generated profile image for a specific user:

$ curl http://localhost/profile/<userid>.png

A <userid> value might be anything that uniquely identifies a user in your application, like for example an user ID, an email address, or (if privacy is a concern) the hash of a user's email address.

You can also generate a profile image for an entire team of users:

$ curl http://localhost/team/<teamid>.png?user=<userid-1>&user=<userid-2>&...

In all requests, you can substitute the .png suffix with .svg to receive vector instead of raster graphics.

The background images are public domain images by NASA/JPL-Caltech.