How to create a new deployment slot with tags

Question

I have a policy in my tenant requiring all resources to have 3 tags. I went to create a new deployment slot for my app service, but it failed because there were no tags. I don't want to clone a deployment slot, but that would probably work. Azure Portal doesn't give the option for adding tags when creating a new slot. Is there a different way where I can create a new slot (without cloning) and fulfill the policy requirements of having the tags on the resource? I also don't want to disable my policy for any amount of time.

Answer 1

You can use Azure PowerShell and specify tags at the point of creation.

$tags= @{ Owner = "me"; CostCentre= "Blah"; OtherTag= "Maui"}

New-AzWebAppSlot -ResourceGroupName Default-Web-WestUS -Name "ContosoSite" -AppServicePlan "ContosoServicePlan" -Slot "Slot001" -Tag $tags

ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.websites/new-azwebappslot?view=azps-10.4.1

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It's kinda strange that the Azure CLI doesn't provide this, but it provides the ability to inherit configuration from another slot. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/webapp/deployment/slot?view=azure-cli-latest#az-webapp-deployment-slot-create