Ideally, endpoint devices are enrolled and provisioned automatically. Decommissioning is a few clicks. Service hosts are deployed and destroyed via ansible or orchestration.
Backups, monitoring, logging, SIEM, etc. are integrated with the CMDB such that events and managed hosts are linked in both directions.
If anything, I’m spoiled on having automated systems making lifecycle terribly easy. I would concede that’s a blind spot in my perspective; many organizations aren’t going to be similarly equipped. If such an organization is managing more than a few dozen devices, however, they may have bigger problems than naming.
As it should be. Thus far, the people who advocate for the abolishing of host names have been the same people who lack lifecycle processes. I don't think this is a coincidence. Most people tend to solve the problems they can grasp, and it is hard to see what you lack.
Backups, monitoring, logging, SIEM, etc. are integrated with the CMDB such that events and managed hosts are linked in both directions.
If anything, I’m spoiled on having automated systems making lifecycle terribly easy. I would concede that’s a blind spot in my perspective; many organizations aren’t going to be similarly equipped. If such an organization is managing more than a few dozen devices, however, they may have bigger problems than naming.