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Separation of Azure Resource Group tags in Cloudability 

Thu March 02, 2023 03:56 AM

Cloudability can now differentiate between Azure Resource Group tags and Azure Resource tags so that customers can distinctly identify and manage them. Previously, Cloudability made no distinction between a Resource Group tag and a Resource tag, both were merged and treated as Resource tags. With this release, customers can now better track and manage their Resource Groups by creating a new business dimension for them, applying specific rules, business mappings to them etc.

Cloudability will change the format of Azure tags as below:
cldy:azure:ResourceGroupTag:<TagKey>, for tags generated from Resource Group level
cldy:azure:ResourceTag:<TagKey>, for tags generated from Resource level

Note: This feature is not backward compatible. Resource Group tags that were discovered and treated as Resource tags in Cloudability prior to this release would remain unchanged.

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Eugene Girolimetto
Wed March 15, 2023 10:01 PM

Thanks for the clarity, Rajesh!


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Rajesh Krishnan
Tue March 14, 2023 11:16 PM

@Eugene Girolimetto - here are the answers:

  • Q: If I apply the same tag:value to both resource group and resource within the group, do I still need to double-up the tag mappings now? 

A: No. If both resource group and all the resources within that group have same tag:value, you may just use either one of them to map to a dimension in Cloudability.

  • Q: If I apply the same tag:value across cloud providers, can I continue to use the unqualified tag mapping?

A: Yes. nothing else has changed in the way our tagging works - we just introduced a way to clearly distinguish resource group tags in Azure

We will review our Help center docs on tagging and make the necessary changes soon. 

Please reach out to us if you have any additional questions or need further clarifications. Thanks, Eugene!


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Eugene Girolimetto
Mon March 13, 2023 07:35 AM

Questions about this enhancement: 

  • If I apply the same tag:value to both resource group and resource within the group, do I still need to double-up the tag mappings now? 
  • If I apply the same tag:value across cloud providers, can I continue to use the unqualified tag mapping?

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Eugene Girolimetto
Mon March 13, 2023 07:32 AM

In light of this release, I started reviewing all of my current tag mappings, which led me to realize that the Help Center entry for Tags in Cloudability is in dire need of an update.  Please add info for Azure and others.


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