A cautionary tale of names

[Eric Snow]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:17 PM, 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.

Tim, I'm glad you brought this up.  We have followed the lead of the
EC2 provider in this regard, so we'll need to fix this.

Perhaps other providers need fixing too?

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:
> A few quick notes:
>
> - Having an understandable name in a resource useful

Agreed.  For GCE we may have both the env name and UUID.

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

What do you mean by this?  Do tags incorporate the env UUID somehow?

-eric