May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
Content preview from Implementing Azure Solutions
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Tagging in the Azure resource manager
We have just learned how to create an Azure resource group, and how to add an Azure resource. What we are still missing? Short answer: we still need a way to organize our resources logically, for example, for the calculation of cost or for a targeted tracking.
The Azure resource manager offers a solution for this—Azure resource tags. Azure resource tags are any key/value pairs that appear useful to describe 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, Azure RateCard API). Up to 15 tags can be defined per resource. ...