I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

  • @pound_heapEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    I used to invent “funny” names, but at some point it became a chore and I also found I’m forgetting some names or spelling when I need it.

    Call me boring, but doing enterprise system admin jobs for years I recently started to adopt functional naming convention.

    This is what I have now: [location code][OS code][type vm/ct][environment code][workload][index]

    So the first production DB linux VM in my primary Los Angeles location will be named LA1LVMPDB1 And my second test Nextcloud container hosted in the same location will be named LA2LCTTNC2.

    I still have to invent short names for workload, which is harder for specialized containers, but overall this makes it all more manageable.