---
title: "Application Identity Guide"
description: "Comprehensive guide for implementing application identity and process management in Fulmen applications"
audience: "application-developers"
version: "v1.0.0"
last_updated: "2025-11-02"
status: "planned"
tags: ["fulmen", "identity", "application-standards", "process-management"]
---

# Application Identity Application Guide

**Status**: 📋 Planned - Coming in Crucible v0.2.5

**Audience**: Application developers using gofulmen, pyfulmen, or tsfulmen helper libraries.

**Purpose**: Standardized patterns for application identification, process management, and service discovery across the Fulmen ecosystem.

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## Planned Coverage

- **Application Metadata**: Name, version, instance ID, environment
- **Process Identification**: PID management, lock files, health checks
- **Service Discovery**: Registration with service registries (Consul, etcd)
- **Telemetry Correlation**: Linking traces/metrics/logs to application instances
- **Multi-Instance Coordination**: Leader election, distributed locking
- **Container Environments**: Kubernetes, Docker, cloud platform integration

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## Related Standards

- **Exit Codes**: See `docs/standards/fulmen/exit-codes/README.md` for process termination signals
- **Signal Handling**: See `docs/standards/fulmen/signals/README.md` for graceful shutdown coordination

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**Coming Soon**: Full implementation guide with language-specific examples and helper library integration patterns.

**Track Progress**: [Crucible Issue #TBD]
