AzureRMResourceTag

A tool to easily manage resource tags in Azure.

Workflow

Tagging Azure resources is a good way to understand how they are used, and who is responsible for them. My Azure environment didn't use tags, so I developed this script to assign them.

The workflow I use with this script allows anyone to have input into the process without needing access to Azure, or even PowerShell.

1. Login to Azure PowerShell. I use LoginAzure.ps1 to make this easier.

2. Get a CSV of all resources and their tags:

   Get-AzureRMResourceTag | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation tags.csv

3. Share the CSV with your team using Office 365, network share or whatever.

4. Open the CSV with Excel and fill in the tags you want to set.

   • You can add extra tags by adding a column. Make sure you prepend the tag prefix (TAG_ by default) to the tag name in the column heading.

5. Import the CSV and set tags on resources:

   Import-CSV tags.csv | Set-AzureRMResourceTag