resource-naming-conventions.md

Resource Naming Conventions

• Google Cloud Platform Best Practices for Enterprises
• AWS Tagging Strategies & White Paper
• The Azure Platform's Naming Convention Guide

General Resource Naming

Naming component	Description
Type	An abbreviation that represents the type of cloud resource or asset. The component is often used as a prefix or suffix in the name
Business-Unit	Top-level division of the company that owns the subscription or workload the resource belongs to. In smaller organizations, this component might represent a single corporate top-level organizational element
Name	Name of the application, workload, or service that the resource is a part of
Environment	The stage of the development lifecycle for the workload that the resource supports

Personal Naming Pattern

Key	Description	Example(s)
Organization	...	IBM
Environment	Network (L2) Seperated Alias	Development, Production
Application	Stack, Functional Purpose, or Common-Name	Financial-Audit-Service
Provider	Service(s) either Consumed or Provided	S3, EC2, CFN
Resource	Descriptive Identifier	Log-Results. Artifacts
Identifier	Additional, Optional String	VPC-ID, Private-Key

Examples

• IBM-Production-Financial-Audit-Service-S3-Artifacts

  • IBM/Production/Financial-Audit-Service/S3/Artifacts

• IBM-Staging-Bastion-Host-EC2-SSH-Private-Key

  • IBM/Staging/Bastion-Host/EC2/SSH/Private-Key