Rename Instances

[davidfguillaume]

Some of the Instances I connect to have difficult to remember names.

Please add a feature to add a Nickname, Description or Tag to make it easier to know which server is which.

[jpassing]

Another pending feature request is to allow grouping VMs based on labels. The idea here is that you'd add a label such as iap-desktop/group=database-servers to a set of VMs, and then those VMs would show up as a group named database-servers.

Would such a grouping capabilty solve the challenge of dealing with cryptic VM names? Or do you see a need for per-VM "nicknames" too?

[marcelvanwaaijen]

I have the same request on renaming, but also for projects: It would be great if you can add an alias or a custom name to your projects and instances, and while you also brought up the topic of grouping: It would be nice if you could also group based on Managed Instance Groups, but also on labels would be quite useful.

[davidfguillaume]

Another pending feature request is to allow grouping VMs based on labels. The idea here is that you'd add a label such as iap-desktop/group=database-servers to a set of VMs, and then those VMs would show up as a group named database-servers.

Would such a grouping capabilty solve the challenge of dealing with cryptic VM names? Or do you see a need for per-VM "nicknames" too?

Groups would be great, but Nicknames are also useful (Sorry for not replying sooner, I didn't get a notification).