Mastering FinOps:
Tagging & Naming Conventions Summer Edition
Learn how to create tagging & naming conventions for your AWS, GCP & Azure. Get control of your company Cloud resources and reduce your bill.
Allocate your Cloud Costs with Company Tagging Policies and Naming Conventions
Are you throwing money away on cloud resources?
Do you struggle to understand where your cloud spending is going?
Welcome to the Mastering FinOps: Naming Conventions and Tagging Course.
Here, you’ll discover the secrets to efficient cloud cost allocation and resource management in AWS, GCP & Azure.
Without a solid tagging FinOps strategy, you’re likely facing:
- Lack of standardization: Making it impossible to classify and manage your cloud resources effectively.
- Inconsistent naming: Different teams using different names for the same resources, leading to chaos.
- Human error: Increased mistakes in resource naming, causing misallocation and wasted spend.
- Hidden costs: Difficulty in tracking and allocating costs to specific business units or projects.
- Missed opportunities: Inability to leverage automation and policies for cost optimization.
Alfonso San Miguel Sánchez
Automation, DevOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast with broad experience in Microsoft solutions (on-premises and Azure) and a recent focus on AWS. Strong collaboration with development teams, specializing in cloud optimization and governance, particularly in FinOps. Co-author of Efficient Cloud FinOps (Packt Publishing) and trainer for FinOps Weekly and SmartClouds.
Course syllabus
Week 1 Jul 1—Jul 6
Naming Conventions Introduction:
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Naming Conventions Introduction.
THUE 7/3 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (GMT+2) - Example: Azure Naming Conventions Generator.
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Exercise: Prepare your own Naming Convention.
SUBMIT BY JUL 10
Tagging Introduction
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Tagging Introduction.
THUE 7/3 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (GMT+2) - Example: Tagging Strategy
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Exercise: Create your own Tagging Strategy
SUBMIT BY JUL 10
Q&A With Instructors
- FRI 7/4 3:00 PM-4:00 PM (GMT+2)
Week 2 Jul 7—Jul 13
Infrastructure as Code for Tagging & Naming Conventions:
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Optional: Infraestructure as Code - Terraform Introduction Tue
7/86:00 PM—7:00 PM (GMT+2) -
Infrastructure as Code for Tagging & Naming Conventions.
Thu 7/106:00 PM—7:30 PM (GMT+2) -
Exercise: Create your own Tagging Policy using Terraform.
Submit by Jul 17 - Example: IaC code samples IaC Code Repo
Week 3 Jul 14—Jul 20
Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions:
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Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions.
Tue 7/156:00 PM—7:30 PM (GMT+2) -
Create 3 Different Tagging Policies.
Submit by Jul22 -
Code Samples
- Managing Tagging & Naming Conventions across Resources. Thu 7/176:00 PM-7:30 PM (GMT+2)
- Q&A with Instructors FRI : PM: PM (GMT+2)
Week 4 Jul 21—Jul 27
Show & Tell
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Show & Tell Project.
Submit by Jul 29 -
Show & Tell: Exercises and Feedback from the Course.
Tue 7/22 6:00 PM-7:30 PM (GMT+2)
Who is this course for
FinOps struggling with Allocation
If you have problems allocating costs in your cloud, this program will help you do so via tagging.
Cloud Architects who need to policies to enforce tagging across organization
We'll provide policies that are already in use by companies.
Managers ready to understand the implicatoins of tagging in FinOps
To Understand the impact and how to enforce tagging, this is for you.
What you’ll get out of this course
Understand how Naming Conventions Work & Their Role in FinOps
Using a naming convention for our cloud resources allows us to:
- Infer additional information about the resource by its name
- Simplify cloud resources management and inventory
- Ensure consistency and standardization
Learn how Tagging can help you allocate costs in Cloud
Comprehend the benefits of tagging within FinOps:
- Allows us to filter, classify and group cloud resources based on relevant terms
- Enables cost visibility and cost allocation
- Simplifies operations and cloud resources maintenance
- Automation processes
Automate Tagging for your Cloud environment with Done-for-You policies using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Leveraging IaC to define your tagging and naming convention policies allows us to control our infrastructure with all the benefits of code, such as:
- Versioning
- Deployment automation consistency,
- Standardization,
- Work item/bug tracking.
- And many more …
Enforce Tagging & Naming Convention Policies in your Company
Once we have defined a tagging policy, we need to oversee its adoption.
We need to have tools in place to both:
- Audit resources compliance to our tagging strategy
- Prevent creation of resources that are not compliant to our tagging strategy
Monitoring Tagging & Naming Convention Tools
We’ll help you understand all the tools available to create and supervise your tags, along with an example on how to create dashboards.
You’ll be able to monitor your tagging across
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
No provider escapes our policies.
This course includes
- 9 interactive live sessions
- 5 in-depth lessons
- 5 projects to apply learnings
- Private community of peers
- Lifetime access to course materials
- Direct access to instructor
- Guided feedback & reflection
- Course certificate upon completion