#resourcetags

Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 2 – Enforcement)

Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 2 – Enforcement)

This post is following on from part 1 about resource tagging on resource groups where we setup azure policies to look for the existence of resource tags on resource groups.  While this is helpful to understand the scale of the problem, the real problem is getting people to tag their resource groups when they create them.  I work with a bunch of misfits and mavericks and while all brilliant in their own right, asking them to do anything as simple as tagging their stuff is about as futile as yelling at the rain to stop.

Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 1 - Auditing)

Resource Tagging Best Practices Applied (Part 1 - Auditing)

Our most popular blog post was about resource tagging best practices. I thought I would follow up that post with some real-world application of tagging best practices in our own environment with the explicit purpose of tracking down Azure spend and getting that spend information into people's inboxes so they can take action to reduce costs.