HarrisKirk / blue-green-dreams

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Make sure labels are descriptive and tags are for filtering #58

Closed HarrisKirk closed 1 year ago

HarrisKirk commented 1 year ago

In Linode, tags and labels are used to help you organize and group your resources.

A Linode tag is a user-defined keyword that can be applied to your Linode instances, volumes, and other resources to help you categorize and filter them based on specific criteria. For example, you might apply tags like "production", "development", "web server", "database", etc. to your Linodes to make it easier to identify and manage them.

On the other hand, a Linode label is a user-defined string that can be applied to your Linode instances to give them a human-readable name or identifier. Labels can be used to describe the purpose or function of a Linode, making it easier to identify it among other resources in your account.

To summarize, while both tags and labels can be used to organize and group your resources in Linode, tags are more focused on criteria-based filtering and categorization, while labels are more focused on providing a human-readable name or identifier for your resources.