Azure Naming Tool Overview

Remembering the constraints and caveats of how to name your resources in Azure can be challenging. Between minimum and maximum lengths, allowed characters, and using unique names, there's too much to remember.

Microsoft have some guidance around naming your resources as part of the Cloud Adoption Framework, and to make everyone's life much easier, there's a fantastic utility called the Azure Naming Tool, which can be used to generate names for Azure resources in your environment, based off organisational components and guardrails you can put in place for your company.

Join me in this video where we cover the basics of why naming resources is important, through to downloading, running, and configuring the Azure Naming Tool.


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// RESOURCES & REFERENCES 📃
CAF Documentation - Naming and Tagging:
🔗https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...
CAF Documentation - Define Your Naming Convention:
🔗https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azu...
CAF on GitHub:
🔗https://github.com/microsoft/CloudAdo...
Azure Naming Tool on GitHub:
🔗https://github.com/microsoft/CloudAdo...
Updating the Azure Naming Tool:
🔗https://github.com/microsoft/CloudAdo...
Bryan Soltis' Deep Dive Blog:
🔗https://soltisweb.com/blog/detail/202...



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// CHAPTERS 🕛
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Agenda
1:55 Resource Naming Considerations
5:07 About the Azure Naming Tool
7:28 Process to Use The Tool
8:11 Exploring the GitHub Repository
8:41 Clone the repo locally
9:21 Build and run the Docker Image
11:21 Launching the Azure Naming Tool
11:54 Admin Settings
14:55 Azure Naming Tool Configuration
29:17 Reference Names
31:56 Generating Resource Names
40:22 Using the REST API
45:38 Updating the Azure Naming Tool
47:25 Bryan Soltis' Deep Dive Blog
48:44 Summary