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AWS Azure Tagging

Tagging in Azure and AWS -

We have thousands of servers withing both the AWS and Azure Cloud providers.

We need to apply the following tags to all the resources as well as any new resources created in any of cloud providers.

BusinessUnit:      Identify business unit e.g. Finance, Marketing, Human Resources,            
Owner:      The email distribution name of the team,            
CostCentreCode:      Used to identify the cost centre code for cross charging,            
Name:      Used to identify the individual resource,            
ApplicationID:      Used to identify resources that are related to specific applications,            
Functionality:      Used to identify the purpose of the resource, i.e. web, message broker, DB,            
Environment:       To identify Production, PreProd, UAT, Dev, Test, Performance, Security etc,            
Schedule:       Identifies whether the server should be powered down at certain times,            
Monitoring:      Required if server is being monitored or not,            
Geography:      This should contain the Oxford University Press' geography the resource group is utilised by,            
ExternallyManaged:      3rd party support details such as HT2, CirrusHQ, Avallain, Cognizant,            
Backups:      Backup schedule and to where            

what is the best way to implement this ? do know anyone know a script i can utilise to deploy this in both environments?

Regards,
Kay
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One possible avenue to explore is configuration / infrastructure management with something like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.  You can use tools like that to automate the tagging of instances.  The downside is that there's somewhat of a steep learning curve.

Just as an example, here's how you can manipulate AWS tags with Ansible: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/ec2_tag_module.html
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Hi,

can we ansible to modify existing resource tags? or is it mainly for new resource creation ?

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kelly
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