====== Fully Qualified Service Name ======

The **Fully Qualified Service Name** or **FQSN** (November 11, 2025) is a descriptive name for an &ref application that includes the following information:
  * Application
  * Instance name
  * Environment
  * Platform provider
  * Platform discriminant (eg. geographic region, VM name, or platform group followed by additional platform provider-discriminant pairs)

This quintuple succinctly specifies a particular application instance along with the infrastructure on which it runs.

===== Examples =====

  * The [[West 2]] minecraft server, as of Nov 19, 2025, runs on the Pebblehost platform provider in their Canada region. Therefore, its FQSN is ''mc-w2-prod-pebble-ca''.
  * The Syncthing instance running in Milky-Way specific to the Hydrogen-Sulfide VM can be referred to as ''syncthing-main-prod-andref-milkyway-starptr-hydrogensulfide''.
  * This wikiref running on Dokuwiki can be called ''dw-wikiref-prod-andref-tilderef-do-sfo3''.

===== Shortname Parts =====

The parts in the quintuple are usually an abbreviation or acronym.

  * **do** – DigitalOcean
  * **dw** – DokuWiki
  * **mc** – Minecraft
  * **pebble** – PebbleHost