This document offers rules for choosing host names, so that Netops can better manage the hosts in production. View the rules below through the eyes of Netops. They need to know, from the host name, what the host does and where it fits in the big picture. No matter how familiar a name is to you, if it means nothing to Netops, there may be better choices for your host name.
The Naming Czar has the power to enforce these rules, and is the final authority for host names.
This document sets rules only for host names, that is, the part of a full domain name up to the first dot. For example, for the domain name app01.p001.us-west-1.aws.xyz.com, the rules cover the name app01. This document does not set rules for for anything else, such as network names, DNS subdomain names, or appliance names.
This is a document currently under review. It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time.