Resource naming conventions in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Resource naming conventions

📖 Scenario: You are working in a cloud team that manages many Azure resources. To keep things organized and easy to find, your team follows strict naming rules for resources.For example, resource names must include the environment, resource type, and a unique identifier, all separated by hyphens.

🎯 Goal: Create a list of Azure resource names following the naming convention: env-type-uniqueid. Then filter the list to only include production environment resources.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list called resource_names with exact resource names

Create a variable called environment set to 'prod'

Use a list comprehension to create a new list prod_resources with only names starting with the environment value

Add a final line to print the prod_resources list

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

In real cloud projects, consistent resource naming helps teams find and manage resources easily, especially in large environments.

💼 Career

Understanding and applying naming conventions is a key skill for cloud engineers and architects to maintain organized and scalable cloud infrastructure.

1

Create the initial list of resource names

Create a list called resource_names with these exact strings: 'dev-vm-001', 'prod-db-002', 'test-app-003', 'prod-vm-004', 'dev-db-005'

Azure

# Create the list resource_names with the exact resource names
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use square brackets to create a list and include all resource names as strings separated by commas.

2

Set the environment filter variable

Create a variable called environment and set it to the string 'prod'

Azure

resource_names = ['dev-vm-001', 'prod-db-002', 'test-app-003', 'prod-vm-004', 'dev-db-005']
# Create the variable environment and set it to 'prod'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a simple assignment to create the variable environment.

3

Filter the list for production resources

Use a list comprehension to create a new list called prod_resources that includes only the resource names from resource_names that start with the value in environment followed by a hyphen. Use for name in resource_names and name.startswith(environment + '-') in the comprehension.

Azure

resource_names = ['dev-vm-001', 'prod-db-002', 'test-app-003', 'prod-vm-004', 'dev-db-005']
environment = 'prod'
# Create prod_resources list with names starting with environment + '-'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list comprehension with name.startswith(environment + '-') to filter the list.

4

Print the filtered production resources

Add a line to print the prod_resources list.

Azure

resource_names = ['dev-vm-001', 'prod-db-002', 'test-app-003', 'prod-vm-004', 'dev-db-005']
environment = 'prod'
prod_resources = [name for name in resource_names if name.startswith(environment + '-')]
# Print the prod_resources list
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the print function to display the list.