Naming conventions

Governing and managing resources in Azure can become a challenge if you do not introduce a proper naming convention that is simple, intuitive, and easy to follow. In the world of software development, proper naming for services is especially difficult as you have to take into account different regions, environments, and instances. In this section, we will try to discover different concepts for naming conventions, which you will able to apply or adjust to your needs.

Finding the best naming convention

In Azure, you have to consider the following aspects of a resource:

• A region where it is provisioned
• A resource type
• A resource name
• A resource instance type/environment

We will start from a resource group...