Here’s a short overview of deployed environment attributes:

Name

Type

Dev

Dev

Brave

Dev

Stage

Stage

Each environment resource - folder, project - is tagged or labeled respectively in GCP:

  • deployment type → in this case, environment

  • deployment name → <environment name>

  • environment type → dev, stage, prod, …

The upper is also valid for TF workspace resources using this tags format:

"deployment-type:environment",
"deployment-name:<environment name>",
"environment-type:<environment type>"