Tag Resources

This guide explains how to use Tag Analyzer to review the tagging coverage across all clouds and tag resources directly from Cloudaware.

Requirements

AWS

To tag AWS resources from Cloudaware, download Cloudaware Tagging policy: Admin → Amazon Web Services → N Configured → +ADD AWS ACCOUNT → Using Access & Secret Keys → select Tagging (Part#1) in Cloudaware IAM Policies. Review the policy and apply it in AWS.

Azure

To tag Azure resources from Cloudaware, use the Tag Contributor role. Learn how to assign this role to Cloudaware here (see 'Tagging Permissions').

GCP

To tag GCP resources from Cloudaware, ensure that the permissions for labels are in place on a custom role created for and assigned to Cloudaware.

To view billing tags: use Google Detailed Billing for Cloudaware to display the cost on an instance level in the CMDB. If Standard Billing Data Export is in use, every GCE instance in your environment must have a tag, e.g. instance-name: actual-name-of-this-instance.

Alibaba Cloud

Ensure that the Cloudaware RAM Role template containing necessary permissions is applied in ROS.

If access keys are used to add Alibaba Cloud account to Cloudaware, ensure that the user access policy has the following permissions:

CODE

            {
              "Action": [
                "tag:*",
                "*:ListTagResources",
                "*:DescribeTags",
                "*:DescribeTagKeys",
                "*:ListTagKeys",
                "*:ListTagValues",
                "*:Tag*",
                "*:Untag*",
                "*:UnTag*",
                "*:AddTags*",
                "*:RemoveTags*"
              ],
              "Resource": [
                "*"
              ],
              "Effect": "Allow"
            }

Oracle Cloud

Tagging Oracle Cloud resources directly from Cloudaware is not supported at the moment.

Tag Analyzer

Log in to Cloudaware account → Tag Analyzer.
Select a cloud provider, e.g. AWS:

Choose an object type from the list, e.g. AWS EC2 Instance:
In the 'Not Tagged Objects' column, review the number of untagged resources. Click the number to open the Objects Explorer.
Select AWS EC2 instances to which the tag should be applied. Click the three-dot menu -> TAG AWS EC2 INSTANCES.
Review the existing tags. Click +ADD TAG to apply a new tag.
Add the tag name and value, and click Save. New tags and their values will be propagated in your AWS Console.

Mind tag name–value pair limitations for each cloud provider: up to 50 tags can be applied on AWS and Microsoft Azure resources, and up to 64 tags on Google Cloud resources.

CaTags Creation

СaTags are Cloudaware-specific fields used to parse row tag data received from cloud providers. Using the Cloudaware Tag Analyzer, create CaTags for AWS, Azure, Google, vCenter and Alibaba objects.

Cloudaware supports two types of CaTags: Fuzzy and Exact. These help normalize tags that may be written differently but carry the same meaning. For example, if tags env, environment, and Environment are used interchangeably according to your organization’s tagging policy, create a Fuzzy CaTag to consolidate their values under a single tag, such as Environment.

However, if tags environment and Environment must be treated as distinct tags, create an Exact CaTag:

CMDB - Tag resources - caTags creation - exact caTag example.png

To create caTags for custom objects or objects that are NOT currently supported in Tag Analyzer:

Log into the Cloudaware account → Setup.
Click Object Manager → select the object in question, e.g. AWS EKS Cluster Pod Container.
In the section 'Fields & Relationships', click New.
Select Text for data type. Fill out the fields successively:
Field Label: Tag name (format: companyname_tagname)
Length: 255
The ‘Field Name' will be populated automatically.

! In the 'Field Name’ field, replace the company name before the underscore with the caTag prefix. The resulting API name must be in in the format caTag_tagname:
Click Next → leave checkboxes as is in 'Visible' → Next → Save.

Tags in Cloudaware CMDB

Apart from using Tag Analyzer, access the tags through:

List Views: e.g. select the default list view Running for AWS EC2 Instances, and click the relevant instance to open its record
the 'DETAILS' tab on a resource: check the sections ‘Tags: Standard Fields’ and 'Tags: caTag Fields’
the 'TAGS' tab on a resource: click +ADD TAG to add a tag, or select an existing tag and click DELETE TAG to remove it

CMDB - Tag resources - navigation - the tab Tags.png

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