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Help Center/ Tag Management Service/ Best Practices/ Principles for Naming Tags

Principles for Naming Tags

Updated on 2024-08-01 GMT+08:00

Principles

After a company moves to the cloud, as cloud resources keep growing, they usually need to manage hundreds of thousands or millions of resources within one account. It is both difficult and inefficient to manually classify these resources. To meet this challenge head on, a cloud service that can enable automatic cloud management is required.

TMS enables you to classify and group resources with tags. You can tag resources by their attributes, such as by department, region, or project.

Use Standardized Tag Names

Classifying resources by using standardized tag names can facilitate automatic and efficient cloud management.

A standardized tag name should meet the following requirements:

  • Use a consistent case, such as lower case or upper case, for all tag keys and values.
  • If Chinese characters are used in a tag name, you are advised to limit the characters to six to avoid exceeding the upper limit.

Use Consistent and Concise Tag Names

You are advised to use consistent expression for the same attribute. For example, if "purpose" was used to indicate resource utility, you should avoid using other words, such as "use" or "object", to indicate resource utility.

Keep the tag keys and values clear and concise. Do not use a tag name to indicate more than one meaning.

Plan and predefine tags in advance

You can plan and predefine tags, especially tag keys, in parallel with resource planning. Then you can use the predefined tags to classify your resources.

Avoid containing privacy information

A tag name should avoid containing enterprise privacy information, such as names of confidential enterprise projects, project revenue information, phone numbers, or email addresses.

Examples

The following table lists some tag naming examples. You are advised to use lowercase letters for all tag keys and values.

Category

Key

Value

Organizational structure

headquarters

subcompany

department

team

group

Corresponding names

Service architecture

product

module

service

microservice

Corresponding names

Roles

role

user

network administrator

audit administrator

operational administrator

development personnel

test personnel

Purpose

purpose

Corresponding utility

Project and environment

project

task

environment

Project-related values

Cost attribution

costcenter

businessunit

Department-related costs

Order

order

Order ID

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