Azure Tag manager

Tag manager is used to add or change tags on Azure resources on a massive scale. The tags are applied only when given rules are satisfied, for example prior existance of a certain tag, or the lack of it.

Download

You can download a binary for your architecture from the releases page.

Usage

To use it you need to create Azure service principal. Create service principal file:

az ad sp create-for-rbac --sdk-auth > my.auth

and export path to the authorizer:

export AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION=my.auth

beta: Using cli authorizer is in works.

How it works ?

Azure Tag Manager needs a file with rules, each rule consists of conditions and actions. Given all the conditions, all actions are executed. The rules file can be supplied either in json or yaml.

{
  "dryrun": true,
  "rules":  [
    {
        "name": "Tag me stuff", 
        "conditions": [
            {"type": "tagEqual", "tag": "myTag", "value" : "example"},
            {"type": "tagExists", "tag": "myTagWhichExists"},
            {"type": "tagNotExists", "tag": "env"}
        ], 
        "actions": [
            {"type": "addTag", "tag": "newTag", "value": "value" },
            {"type": "addTag", "tag": "newTag2", "value": "value2" }
        ]
      }
    ]
}

Equivalent of the same file in YAML would look like:

---
dryrun: true
rules:
- name: Tag me this
  conditions:
  - type: tagEqual
    tag: myTag
    value: example
  - type: tagExists
    tag: myTagWhichExists
  - type: tagNotExists
    tag: env
  - type: regionEqual
    region: westeurope
  - type: rgEqual
    resourceGroup: exampleRg
  actions:
  - type: addTag
    tag:  newTag
    value: newValue
  - type: addTag
    tag: newTag2
    value: someValue

The following types of conditions are accepted:

• noTags - checks if there are no tags set
• tagEqual - checks if a tag has a value set
• tagNotEqual - checks if a tag has a value set different than value
• tagExists - checks if a tag with key tag exists
• tagNotExists - same as above but negative
• regionEqual - checks if resource is in key region (aka location in azure)
• regionNotEqual - same as above but negative
• rgEqual - match resource group in a key resourceGroup
• rgNotEqual - match not resource group
• resEqual - resource name equals resource

The supported actions are:

• addTag - adds a tag with key tag and value value
• delTag - deletes a tag with key tag

When rewriting, the tool will first do a backup of old tags. It will be saved in a file in the current (run) directory.

Running

Tagmanager accepts commands and flags: tagmanager COMMAND [FLAGS].

Usage:
  tagmanager [command]

Available Commands:
  check       Do sanity checks on a resource group (NOT FULLY IMPLEMENTED YET)
  help        Help about any command
  restore     Restore previous tags from a file backup
  retagrg     Retag resources in a rg based on tags on rgs
  rewrite     Rewrite tags based on rules from a file

Flags:
  -h, --help      help for tagmanager
  -v, --verbose   verbose output

Commands:

• rewrite - mode where tagmanager will retag the resources based on mapping given in a mapping file input (specified with -m filepath flag). If --dry flag is given, the tagging actions will not be executed

• restore - restores tags backed up in a file, supplied by -f filepath flag

• check - (EXPERIMENTAL) does some basic sanity checks on the resource group given as --rg flag

• retagrg - Takes tags form a given resource group (--rg) and applies them to all of the resources in the resource group. If any existing tags are already there, the new ones with be appended. Adding --cleantags will clean ALL the tags on resources before adding new ones.

Todo

• Azure ARM policy setting
• AWS support for EC2

Licence

MIT licence.

Author(s): Dariusz Dwornikowski (@tdi)

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