If it is not recognized, it is difficult to manage. In cloud computing, when resources have meaningful names or “tags”, management can be of great help.
Cloud providers usually use non-pronounceable-and hard to remember-tags to mark resources, but user-assigned tags, if properly designed, can organize cloud resources and promote everything from policy changes and billing audits to security and availability everything of.
A label is a combination of a key (category name) and a value (the name of something in that category). An often cited example is the environment as the key and development, testing and production as the value.
User tags help to identify resources more easily and can also provide multiple identities for potential cross-references. For example, resources may be labeled environment-production and organization-financial.
Marking is not a one-time task. Rather, it is a commitment to a way to organize and monitor cloud resources, and this way should be proportional to how serious you take your work for a long time. Use the following steps to build your strategy.
A good tagging strategy starts with a team that should represent all organizations that need or have a reason to cite cloud resource information. The team’s goal is to collect all uses of the data and then decide how to promote those uses through tags.
Some users suggest that the initial team process should focus on general requirements first, rather than defining tags, to avoid making promises before collecting all basic information. As a guide, three specific areas that may benefit from marking are:
After collecting data usage, it’s time to consider tags. Experience tends to be a top-down approach, so first group data usage requirements by organization to ensure that you can separate stakeholder requirements and map all data usage to a label or set of labels. This is the labeled “who knows” dimension, and it can be as simple as creating a set of keys and values ​​to identify the organization that makes the team’s contribution.
The next step is to look at the “what-knowledge” dimension, which is the purpose of the data. Here, it is important not to create dedicated usage labels for each organization. Cost allocation and budget reconciliation, common tasks that tags can facilitate, are usually done in the same way everywhere, so set up a common tag set for these tasks.
Tasks such as access management and application security/compliance constraints create “how to use” dimensions. Like the labeled “what-knowledge” dimension, these activities may cross organizational boundaries. Usually, this set of tasks and related data will be directly related to the role of the worker. Here, it’s important to summarize the role to the maximum, to ensure that you don’t end up with thousands of key/value tags.
First assume that you have only one role-you can use the keyword “role” to represent-and then assign the roles as widely as possible, consistent with your constraints. If necessary, you can add the “JobLevel” keyword to separate worker/supervisor permissions.
Now you are ready to mark. It is best to assign the actual labeling responsibility of resources to the operations group that manages the cloud. The motto “mark everything” applies here. Mark all current resources with each appropriate tag, even if all tag combinations are not currently used. Mark each new resource immediately before use.
Determine the label associated with the resource, send the result to the original planning team for review, and then apply the label from top to bottom. Most companies like to run reports at this stage to understand how the tagging strategy organizes resource data and help optimize tagging if necessary.
The final step is to create a marking plan to record your results. The plan must be kept up to date with the marking or any changes in the marking process. It should record all current labels and the reason for each label, how the resource is labelled and the organization responsible for labeling and review, and examples of how each organization uses the label.
The labeling strategy is all about planning, so it is wise to consider these preliminary steps before you begin. A bad labeling plan, or no plan at all, can cost a lot of business time and money.
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