Learn about tagging

BlueXP enables you to apply tags to your existing resources to help organize and manage those resources. Tags are metadata that you can use to group resources to identify applications, environments, regions, billing codes, cloud providers, and more.

Tags consists of a tag key and a tag value. For example, you can create a tag key called "Environment" and then add tag values of "Production" and "Test". After they are applied to your resources, you can quickly search for and view resources that match the key/value pair.

You can add tag key/value pairs to new resources when you create a working environment or an Azure NetApp Files volume. You can also define tag key/value pairs in BlueXP templates that you build for your storage admins and DevOps engineers.

You can add new tags using the Tagging service, and you can change or delete existing tags.

Features

The Tagging service offers the following features and benefits:

  • Create tag keys and tag values that match the terms you use in your environment

  • Organize the resources in your environment for easier monitoring and management

  • Add, remove, and edit tag keys and tag values by resource type

  • Tag ONTAP resources and resources in your environment from AWS and Azure.

Pricing and licenses

The ability to tag your resources requires no licensing and is free to use by all BlueXP users with the Account Admin or Workspace Admin role.

Resources that you can tag

You can apply tags to the following resources.

Provider Service Resource

ONTAP

Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Aggregate
Storage VM
Volume

On-premise ONTAP

Aggregate
Storage VM
Volume

Azure NetApp Files

Volume

NetApp-Service

Sync

Relationship

AWS

EC2

Instance
Security Group
Subnet
Volume
VPC

Azure

Compute

Snapshot
Virtual Machine

Network

Security Group
Virtual Network

Resource

Resource Group

Storage

Storage Account

GCP

Compute

Instance

Storage

Bucket

For information about AWS EC2 tags, refer to AWS Documentation: Tagging your Amazon EC2 Resources.

For information about Azure tags, refer to Azure Documentation: Tagging your Azure resources.

For information about Google labels, refer to Google Cloud Documentation: Tagging your Google Cloud resources.

Prerequisites

Verify your AWS Connector permissions

If you created the Connector using BlueXP version 3.9.10 or greater, then you’re all set. If you created the Connector using an earlier version of BlueXP, then you’ll need to add some required permissions for the BlueXP IAM role to tag AWS EC2 instances:

{
  "Action": [
    "ec2:CreateTags",
    "ec2:DeleteTags",
    "ec2:DescribeTags",
    "tag:getResources",
    "tag:getTagKeys",
    "tag:getTagValues",
    "tag:TagResources",
    "tag:UntagResources"
  ],
  "Resource": "*",
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Sid": "tagServicePolicy"
}

Verify your Azure Connector permissions

If you created the Connector using BlueXP version 3.9.10 or greater, then you’re all set. If you created the Connector using an earlier version of BlueXP, then you’ll need to add some required permissions for the BlueXP Operator IAM role to tag Azure resources:

{
  "id": "<ID>",
  "properties": {
    "roleName": "Cloud Manager Operator-<ID>",
    "description": "Cloud Manager Operator",
    "assignableScopes": [
      "/subscriptions/<SUBSCRIPTION-ID>"
    ],
    "permissions": [
      {
        "actions": [
          "Microsoft.Resources/tags/read",
          "Microsoft.Resources/tags/write",
          "Microsoft.Resources/tags/delete",
          "Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines/read"
        ],
        "notActions": [],
        "dataActions": [],
        "notDataActions": []
      }
    ]
  }
}

Tag rules and restrictions

The following rules apply when creating tag keys and tag values:

  • Maximum key length: 128 characters

  • Maximum key value length: 256 characters

  • Valid tag and tag value characters: letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters (_, @, &, *, etc.)

  • Tags are case upper/lower sensitive.

  • Maximum tags per resource: 30

  • Per resource, each tag key must be unique

Tag examples

Key Values

Env

production
test

Dept

finance
sales
eng

Owner

admin
storage