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Simplify identification of orphaned resources with better workspace ID #3048

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@ammario

Currently, the workspace ID is generated from a UUID.

As an infrastructure admin, occasionally I have a workspace that fails to delete or the state is otherwise corrupted. In such cases, I may want to use a script to delete the orphaned resources. Since the workspace ID should be used in the persistent resource ID (see #3000 (comment)), we should include some identifying information in the workspace ID.

Here's an example of a possible format:

  • template ID fragment: the first 8 hex characters of the template ID
  • user ID fragment: the first 8 hex characters of the user ID
  • random: 10 random hexadecimal chars (40 bits of entropy)

This leads to an ID that looks like:

abababab-cdcdcdcd-efefefefefefefefefefefefef

Which would have a 50% chance of collision if there were 1 million workspaces under the same template and same user.

Whoever implements this should run the birthday problem calculations as there's only a few bits of entropy in the template ID and user ID.

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