Implementing Resource Tagging in Azure

What are Tags?
Tags provides metadata for Azure resources, it also logically organizes resources into a taxonomy.

Tags are very useful for rolling up billing information.

In this guide we will be creating a policy assignment that requires tagging, we will also create a storage account and test the tagging.

Creating a Policy Assignment that requires Tagging

Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter policy, then click policy

Step 3:
On the policy page click assignments on the left, then click assign a policy

Step 4:
On the Assign Policy page click ... button on the right under policy definition

Step 5:
Search for tag in the search bar, click require a tag and its value on resource, then click add

Step 6:
Go to the parameters tab, then enter a tag name of your choice and a tag value of your choice then click review + create

Step 7:
After validation has passed click create button

Creating a Storage Account to test required tagging

Step 1:
Go back to Azure portal homepage then on the search bar search for storage accounts, then click storage accounts

Step 2:
On the storage accounts page click create button

Step 3:
On the create a storage account page, select an existing resource group or create a new one, enter a storage account name of your choice, also select a region of your choice leave performance and redundancy as default

Step 4:
Go to tags tab, enter the tag name that was created earlier and also the tag value created earlier then click review

Step 5:
After validation has passed click create button

Step 6:
After deployment is completed, click Go to resource

Step 7:
Viola!!! as you can see we have added a tag to our storage account