Managing naming and tagging conventions
Managing naming and tagging conventions is part of cloud governance. Once a convention is designed and confirmed by all stakeholders in the enterprise, it needs to be enforced. This means that an enterprise might want to deploy default tags on resources—as we have described in the previous sections—but also a policy that enables the termination of instances if they are not tagged or tagged correctly.
Regular reports must be published to verify that naming and tagging is applied as agreed and defined in the convention, but preferably this is automated.
Having said that, the naming and tagging convention will probably not be set in stone. There has to be flexibility in changing the convention when required. Think of a new service that is launched by a cloud provider and that an enterprise would like to use in future deployments, or an enterprise that acquires a new company with its own budgets or cost centers. In these cases...