Using Regular Expressions in policy conditions

Products

• CloudHealth

Issue/Introduction

When creating a policy, you may come across conditions which support Regular Expressions.

This gives you the power to define a search pattern rather than an explicit value, providing greater flexibility. 

For example, searching for assets which contain a tag value whose length is within a certain range:

Another example if you have multiple tag values which share a similar pattern (ie. a UUID)

Resolution

Please keep in mind that it is not within the scope of support to assist with the creation or validation of patterns.