Apply tags with Azure PowerShell
This article describes how to use Azure PowerShell to tag resources, resource groups, and subscriptions. For tag recommendations and limitations, see Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy.
Apply tags
Azure PowerShell offers two commands to apply tags: New-AzTag and Update-AzTag. You need to have the Az.Resources
module 1.12.0 version or later. You can check your version with Get-InstalledModule -Name Az.Resources
. You can install that module or install Azure PowerShell version 3.6.1 or later.
The New-AzTag
replaces all tags on the resource, resource group, or subscription. When you call the command, pass the resource ID of the entity you want to tag.
The following example applies a set of tags to a storage account:
$tags = @{"Dept"="Finance"; "Status"="Normal"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
New-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $tags
When the command completes, notice that the resource has two tags.
Properties :
Name Value
====== =======
Dept Finance
Status Normal
If you run the command again, but this time with different tags, notice that the earlier tags disappear.
$tags = @{"Team"="Compliance"; "Environment"="Production"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
New-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $tags
Properties :
Name Value
=========== ==========
Environment Production
Team Compliance
To add tags to a resource that already has tags, use Update-AzTag
. Set the -Operation
parameter to Merge
.
$tags = @{"Dept"="Finance"; "Status"="Normal"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
Update-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $tags -Operation Merge
Notice that the existing tags grow with the addition of the two new tags.
Properties :
Name Value
=========== ==========
Status Normal
Dept Finance
Team Compliance
Environment Production
Each tag name can have only one value. If you provide a new value for a tag, it replaces the old value even if you use the merge operation. The following example changes the Status
tag from Normal to Green.
$tags = @{"Status"="Green"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
Update-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $tags -Operation Merge
Properties :
Name Value
=========== ==========
Status Green
Dept Finance
Team Compliance
Environment Production
When you set the -Operation
parameter to Replace
, the new set of tags replaces the existing tags.
$tags = @{"Project"="ECommerce"; "CostCenter"="00123"; "Team"="Web"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
Update-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $tags -Operation Replace
Only the new tags remain on the resource.
Properties :
Name Value
========== =========
CostCenter 00123
Team Web
Project ECommerce
The same commands also work with resource groups or subscriptions. Pass them in the identifier of the resource group or subscription you want to tag.
To add a new set of tags to a resource group, use:
$tags = @{"Dept"="Finance"; "Status"="Normal"}
$resourceGroup = Get-AzResourceGroup -Name demoGroup
New-AzTag -ResourceId $resourceGroup.ResourceId -tag $tags
To update the tags for a resource group, use:
$tags = @{"CostCenter"="00123"; "Environment"="Production"}
$resourceGroup = Get-AzResourceGroup -Name demoGroup
Update-AzTag -ResourceId $resourceGroup.ResourceId -Tag $tags -Operation Merge
To add a new set of tags to a subscription, use:
$tags = @{"CostCenter"="00123"; "Environment"="Dev"}
$subscription = (Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "Example Subscription").Id
New-AzTag -ResourceId "/subscriptions/$subscription" -Tag $tags
To update the tags for a subscription, use:
$tags = @{"Team"="Web Apps"}
$subscription = (Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "Example Subscription").Id
Update-AzTag -ResourceId "/subscriptions/$subscription" -Tag $tags -Operation Merge
You may have more than one resource with the same name in a resource group. In that case, you can set each resource with the following commands:
$resource = Get-AzResource -ResourceName sqlDatabase1 -ResourceGroupName examplegroup
$resource | ForEach-Object { Update-AzTag -Tag @{ "Dept"="IT"; "Environment"="Test" } -ResourceId $_.ResourceId -Operation Merge }
List tags
To get the tags for a resource, resource group, or subscription, use the Get-AzTag command and pass the resource ID of the entity.
To see the tags for a resource, use:
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
Get-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id
To see the tags for a resource group, use:
$resourceGroup = Get-AzResourceGroup -Name demoGroup
Get-AzTag -ResourceId $resourceGroup.ResourceId
To see the tags for a subscription, use:
$subscription = (Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "Example Subscription").Id
Get-AzTag -ResourceId "/subscriptions/$subscription"
List by tag
To get resources that have a specific tag name and value, use:
(Get-AzResource -Tag @{ "CostCenter"="00123"}).Name
To get resources that have a specific tag name with any tag value, use:
(Get-AzResource -TagName "Dept").Name
To get resource groups that have a specific tag name and value, use:
(Get-AzResourceGroup -Tag @{ "CostCenter"="00123" }).ResourceGroupName
Remove tags
To remove specific tags, use Update-AzTag
and set -Operation
to Delete
. Pass the resource IDs of the tags you want to delete.
$removeTags = @{"Project"="ECommerce"; "Team"="Web"}
$resource = Get-AzResource -Name demostorage -ResourceGroup demoGroup
Update-AzTag -ResourceId $resource.id -Tag $removeTags -Operation Delete
The specified tags are removed.
Properties :
Name Value
========== =====
CostCenter 00123
To remove all tags, use the Remove-AzTag command.
$subscription = (Get-AzSubscription -SubscriptionName "Example Subscription").Id
Remove-AzTag -ResourceId "/subscriptions/$subscription"
Next steps
- Not all resource types support tags. To determine if you can apply a tag to a resource type, see Tag support for Azure resources.
- For recommendations on how to implement a tagging strategy, see Resource naming and tagging decision guide.
- For tag recommendations and limitations, see Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy.