A cautionary tale of names

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

A few quick notes:

- Having an understandable name in a resource useful

- Being a tag means it's possible to have a name *and* a UUID

- It's surprising to have machines destroyed as a side effect of bootstrap


On Mon Jan 12 2015 at 7:24:05 AM roger peppe <roger.peppe at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On 12 January 2015 at 03:17, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey at canonical.com> wrote:
> > This is because the EC2 provider tags the machines with the environment
> > name, and not environment UUID.  I think we should change this ASAP.
>
> +1. The environment name should be purely client-local IMHO.
>
> The main thing that needs to happen to enable this, if it
> hasn't been done already, is to generate
> the UUID client side before bootstrapping the environment.
>
> It's also worth considering that this might break some existing
> workflows, assuming it's still possible to perform operations on an
> environment that has no .jenv file but just an environments.yaml entry.
>
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