Generating and managing names of instances

A computer system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor system communicatively coupled to the memory;
• the processor system configured to perform a method comprising:
• provisioning a first instance based on a template, wherein the template belongs to a tenant of a container, and the first instance comprises one of an instantiated software and an instantiated computing service, the provisioning comprising configuring and providing one or both of a software resource and a service to the first instance;
• automatically determining a prefix based at least in part on a resource pool that is assigned to the template of the tenant, wherein the determined prefix is included in a name of a second instance that is also provisioned based on the template of the tenant;
• and
• generating a name for the first instance, wherein the generated name starts with the determined prefix, the generated name for the first instance indicating, by including the prefix, an association between the first instance and the second instance, the association including that the first instance and the second instance are provisioned based on the same template and that they use the same resource pool;
• and
• correlating, based on the prefix, the first instance with one or more other instances that are provisioned based on the template of the tenant, the one or more other instances comprising the second instance.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions readable by a processor system to cause the processor system to perform a method comprising:
• provisioning, by a cloud provisioning server, a first instance based on a template, wherein the template belongs to a tenant of a container, and the first instance comprises one of an instantiated software and an instantiated computing service, the provisioning comprising configuring and providing one or both of a software resource and a service to the first instance;
• automatically determining a prefix based at least in part on a resource pool that is assigned to the template of the tenant, wherein the determined prefix is included in a name of a second instance that is also provisioned based on the template of the tenant;
• generating a name for the first instance, wherein the generated name starts with the determined prefix, the generated name for the first instance indicating, by including the prefix, an association between the first instance and the second instance, the association including that the first instance and the second instance are provisioned based on the same template and that they use the same resource pool;
• and
• correlating, based on the prefix, the first instance with one or more other instances that are provisioned based on the template of the tenant, the one or more other instances comprising the second instance.