Creating a tagging convention
Tags are likely the most important attribute in terms of cost management and control in cloud environments. Naming conventions are much more focused on the identification of resources and are also crucial to the automation of cloud management. Tags are metadata that allow additional information on resources that can't be stored in a name. Tagging will help in understanding cost allocation, since we can use tags to categorize cloud resources.
All cloud providers offer extensive ways to apply tags to our resources. However, standard tags can be utilized across these different clouds. It's recommended to have tags for at least the following attributes:
- Application: Typically, a resource is part of an application or an application stack. To categorize resources—meaning VMs, storage, databases, and network components—that belong to one application or application stack, a tag should be added to identify to what stack or application...