Implementing naming and tagging
The successful implementation of a naming and tagging standard starts with a clear policy. Tags should be consistent and applied to all resources: VMs, storage, databases and network components, applications, and services. Remember that every resource in a cloud environment costs money. To have a complete overview of our cloud spending, we have to make sure that all resources are identified and tagged so that they appear in the billing. This means that every team deploying resources to cloud environments must be required to tag resources; even better, a policy should prevent—preferably in a fully automated way—resources without tags being deployed in the first place.
As a best practice, the following steps should be executed to implement a consistent naming and tagging convention:
- Defining the policy: This is part of the multi-cloud architecture. The naming and tagging policy need to be centrally defined so that it's consistent...