Environment

Find out how to apply environment categorisations in CloudCreator with this 3 minute video. 

 

 

CloudCreator supports an optional 'Environment' categorisation on all services.

 

The Environment categorisation allows you to tag each resource as either Production, Staging, Test or Development (you decide the actual values). CloudCreator can then help you answer questions such as:

  • I want to ensure that all my production VMs are backed up. Are they all backed up?
  • I don't want to back up my test and development VMs. Are any backed up now?
  • How much am I paying for my production vs my non-production resources?

 

Several CloudCreator reports group and/or filter resources by Environment. For example, the Resource Category Explorer and Billing Dashboards.

 

 

Environment values are applied at the resource level. The way they are applied differs by service, as described in the table below. This resource category also leverages CloudCreator’s automatic Ancillary Services Mapping to minimise data entry and maximise the benefit of entering category values. 

 

Service Description
NZ Hosted Services

For New Zealand hosted services (excluding Azure Stack), each resource can be assigned an Environment value inside CloudCreator.

 
AWS (offshore)

AWS provides a 'tag' feature that lets you store your own 'attribute' information against each resource. This is the best place to store Environment information.

 

Early each day CloudCreator loads resource tags with the key ‘Environment’.

 

Note:

  • If multiple tags are found for a resource, the first one is used.

  • The loaded Environment is visible in the appropriate CloudCreator reports.

  • The loaded Environment can be viewed but not edited in CloudCreator.

  • AWS tag policies can be used to enforce tagging standards, eg. require each resource to have a tag named ‘Environment’ with a specified value.
Azure (offshore)
Azure Stack 

Azure and Azure Stack provide a 'tag' feature that lets you store your own 'attribute' information against each resource. This is the best place to store Environment information.

 

Currently CloudCreator only loads tags from Azure (offshore). Next, CloudCreator will load tags from Azure Stack.

 

Early each day, CloudCreator loads resource tags with the key “Environment’.

 

Note: 

  • The test on the tag key is case insensitive.

  • If multiple tags are found for a resource, the first one is used.

  • The loaded Environment is visible in appropriate CloudCreator reports.

  • The loaded Environment can be viewed but not edited in CloudCreator.

  • Azure tag policies can be used to enforce tagging standards, e.g. require each resource to have a tag named 'Environment' with a value specified.

  • Alternatively, Azure supports policies like 'Inherit a tag from a resource group'. This allows an Environment tag, and the value defined on a resource group, to be inherited by all resources in that group. 

 

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