fully_qualified_service_name
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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
fully_qualified_service_name.txt · Last modified: 2025/11/19 08:49 by starptr
