Creating a naming convention
Let's assume that we will have a lot of resources deployed to our cloud environments. We need a way to identify these resources. This is what a naming convention does. The naming convention is part of our architecture. Of course, one way to identify resources such as virtual machines is by IP addresses, but with a lot of resources, this is not very convenient or even possible. A naming convention makes our lives a lot easier. Basically, it's just an agreement on how we want to identify resources. You can compare it with street names. In a small village, it might be sufficient to just give each house a number, but in a big city, street names make it easier to find a certain address.
The goal of a naming convention is to enable identification. Typically, the name of a resource also describes what the resource is or does. For example, the naming convention to specify a name for a VM might comprise the following information:
- Where the...