Admin guideApps and the estate
Tags
The taxonomy apps are filed under — administrators define it, owners choose from it.
Admin → Tags. You define tags and their allowed values; app owners choose among them and cannot invent new ones. Expect “please add a value” requests, and answer them quickly.
A taxonomy that works
Section titled “A taxonomy that works”Four or five tags, each with a short closed list:
| Tag | Values |
|---|---|
team |
Your teams |
environment |
prod, staging, sandbox |
data |
public, internal, confidential, regulated |
criticality |
tier-1, tier-2, tier-3 |
A good tag answers a question about every app at once — which touch regulated data, which belong to a team that no longer exists.
Toft maintains a read-only framework tag from detection.
Edit… on a tag’s row changes its name and its description, which owners see when they choose it.
Browsing
Section titled “Browsing”/tags/<tag> and /tags/<tag>/<value> are linkable pages — /tags/team/payments
belongs in a runbook. Value listings show counts, so unused values stand out.
Getting apps tagged
Section titled “Getting apps tagged”Nothing forces an owner to choose. Keep the list short, tag the apps you already know yourself, then use the counts to find the gaps.