Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

Tagging in ARM

We have just learned how to create a resource group and how to add a resource. What we are still missing? We still need a way to organize our resources logically, for example, for the calculation of cost or for a targeted tracking.

ARM offers a solution for this—Azure resource tags. Resource tags are any key/value pairs that appear useful for describing a resource.

Let's see an example:

Key	Value
Department	Management
Project	PPBook
Tenant	ACD

 

Once you have defined a resource tag, you can use this as a filter in Azure PowerShell or in the Azure Billing APIs (Azure Usage API and Azure RateCard API). Up to 15 tags can be defined per resource.

I will show you the necessary work steps on the example ...