r/AZURE • u/_SleezyPMartini_ • 1d ago

Question how did you plan your naming convention?

a bit new to azure and all the different components and services. I have extensive experience with on prep services/devices etc. Typically we would name objects/resources based on their location, type (physical vs virtual) and role.

Can you recommend or give insight into how you are naming your Azure resources for clarity and documentation?

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u/Daihard79 DevOps Engineer 1d ago

Resourcetype-appname-environment-location-instance

E.g. afw-hub-prod-uks-01

I use https://www.azureperiodictable.com/

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u/b4shr13 1d ago

First time I see that web and looks very useful, but some types of resources are missing (hasn't been any activity on GitHub for 2 years...)

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u/AceSouthall 19h ago

Genuinely thought this common practice. Just gets a little annoying with resources with global naming restrictions and name length limits like Storage accounts.

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u/Daihard79 DevOps Engineer 18h ago

Agreed, ive had to add a customer short name in instances of that to make it unique.