Typical container names

i’m still studying this. reading recent posts i have seen simple container names like “c1” and “c4”. is this what people typically use? is anyone else using different naming schemes?

my first containers will probably be running a variety of distros and their versions, but i had thought i would just use use names like “centos6”, slackware14.1", and “ubuntu14.04”. does this make sense?

The c1, c2, … syntax is what a bunch of us use for testing and development of LXD, certainly not something I’d use in production as those names are incredibly obscure and non-descriptive :slight_smile:

For my production servers, I usually use names like rproxy01, dnsr01, shell01, … to identify what the container does and allow for multiple instances of the service.

For use with multiple bridges my naming scheme for containers is like following

vB01-ctName
vB02-ctName

vBxx stands for the used network bridge
ctName should be self explained (for the used service in the container or like tld-domain-sub for a webspacing bridge)

Is easy to find via lxc list the containers based on the bridge caused by standard name sort

Bridges are named like vBridge01, vBridge02 and so on.