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What is your machine naming scheme? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by aquova@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] lidstah 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Physical machines get stars names: Vega, Arcturus, Polaris, Fomalhaut, Deneb, Antares, Procyon, Algol, Aldebaran... and so on.

Virtual machines naming scheme is more reasonable: [os]-[role][number if needed]. Examples:

alp-proxy
talos-controlplane-3, talos-worker-1, talos-worker-6
deb-storage

[-] techviator@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I use the same as you for virtuals(os-mainFunction), and similar for physical (brand-lpt/dsk/srv-mainUsage - Len-lpt-VR1, Srfc7-work, hp-srv-pve1).
I am boring like that.
I also don't name vehicles.

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