Deploying a tag to a resource

In this guide, we'll walk through the steps to deploy a tag to a resource (group).

info

Tags are metadata elements that you apply to your Azure resources.
They're key-value pairs that help you identify resources based on settings that are relevant to your organization.
If you want to track the deployment environment for your resources, add a key named Environment.
To identify the resources deployed to production, give them a value of Production. The full key-value pair is Environment = Production.

Add the tag option

In Visual Studio Code go back to the file resourcegroup-networking.bicep:

• Add a new line under the line: name: name

• Type in the letter t, you will see an autocomplete option for tags:

  • Hit tab to select the option

  • Hit spacebar and enter on the suggested next option
    

  • You can now add tags to the resource (group)

    tags: {
      Environment: 'Production'
    }

  • Re-run the PowerShell to deploy the resource group

  • Refresh the resource group to see the newly created resource group

    • A refresh can take a while, it's probably faster to tick another resource group (if you have one) and move back to this one or hit CTRL-F5 to refresh the complete browser

  • If all is correct you'll see the added tag set on the resource group

  • Add a new tag to the resource group via the Azure Portal, for example Owner with your name as value

  • Re-run the PowerShell to deploy the resource group

  • Refresh the resource group to see that your owner tag is removed by the code (code is leading)

    • A refresh can take a while, it's probably faster to tick another resource group (if you have one) and move back to this one or hit CTRL-F5 to refresh the complete browser

  • If you want the owner tag applied to the resource group, you need to add it to the code and redeploy the resource group:

    tags: {
      Environment: 'Production'
      Owner: 'YourName'
    }

Template

Your template resourcegroup-networking.bicep should look like this:

targetScope = 'subscription'

param location string = 'westeurope'
param name string = 'rg-networking'

resource resResourceGroup 'Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups@2022-09-01' = {
  location: location
  name: name
  tags: {
    Environment: 'Production'
    Owner: 'DTX Demo'
  }
}

Version overview

This document has the following versions:

Version	Date	Overview of changes
1.0	2024-03-18	Initial version.