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?
I give them weird syntax names so if someone was to hack in the names wouldn’t give away what they are immediately. I don’t reuse numbers so that if I rebuild something it gets a new num.
Location-Ordinal-NetworkNum-Counter Eg AU-01-01-01
Containers are just their application name except where I have more than 1 then its Application01,02,etc.