lbe Load balancer (external)Public (external) load balancer.
| CAF abbreviation | lbe |
| Resource type | Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers |
| Length | 1–80 characters |
| Case | Mixed case |
| Allowed characters | Alphanumerics, underscores, periods, and hyphens. Start with alphanumeric; end with alphanumeric or underscore. |
| Uniqueness | Resource group |
| Separator | Hyphen |
Source: Microsoft Learn, “Naming rules and restrictions for Azure resources”, checked October 2026. Abbreviation from the Cloud Adoption Framework.
A worked name for workload app, env prod, region weu, instance 001.
lbe-app-prod-weu-001
Valid
^(?=.{1,80}$)[A-Za-z0-9](?:[A-Za-z0-9_.-]*[A-Za-z0-9_])?$var name = take('lbe-${workload}-${env}-${region}-${instance}', 80)locals {
name = substr(join("-", compact(["lbe", var.workload, var.env, var.region, var.instance])), 0, 80)
}Azure Policy can't evaluate regular expressions, so a policy can check the lbe prefix but not the full format. Run the regex in your pipeline, or audit existing names on a schedule.
Unique within the parent resource group. The same name can be reused in a different resource group.
Open in the name generator