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Introduction to resource tags
Abiquo multicloud resource tags enable you to create groups of related resources, for example, you can tag all the resources in a project. You can use tags to manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources.
Your tags will be local in the platform when Abiquo cannot create tags in the provider. This may be because you created an invalid tag, you created a tag on a resource that is in Abiquo only, or because Abiquo and/or the provider does not support tags for your resource.
Abiquo onboards and synchronizes tags from public cloud providers. Your provider may limit the number of tags and the format, for example, no uppercase letters.
A tag consists of a key and a value that are case sensitive and have a maximum length of 512 characters each. You can only use a key once on each resource, and a key can only have one value.
You can search for resources by tags and filter lists of resources by tags.
The multicloud tag feature enables you to tag resources in projects that use more than one cloud provider and also in private cloud, which makes it easier for you to inventory your resources. You can also display tags in the console of the public cloud provider, and use public cloud tagging features. These features may include the option to display tags on public cloud provider invoices (when Abiquo tags correspond to provider tags with a tag invoice feature).
Tags are only for read-only operations on resources, and you cannot perform modify operations with tags, e.g. you cannot deploy a VM using a tag. But in Control view, when you create automation with action plans, you can select a tag filter to dynamically select a group of VM or scaling group resources by tag to perform actions on them. And administrators can create tag policies to specify allowed or denied tags for resources, and they can check compliance on a report.
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Warning: Do not use tags to store sensitive or confidential data. Check provider documentation about tag security |
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Tag concepts
The following table describes the concepts used in the tagging feature to manage tags in the supported providers.
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Resource | An Abiquo entity that may have a corresponding resource in a provider (e.g. VM) or not (e.g. virtual appliance, scaling group) |
Materialized tag | A tag that is assigned to a resource that exists in the provider and the tag exists in the platform and in the provider. |
Local tag | A tag that is in the platform but does not exist in the provider. For example, tags that are:
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Protected tag key | If a tag has a protected tag key, the platform cannot update this tag |
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Tag validation
Tags maybe be invalid in the provider if they:
are too short or too long
contain invalid characters
exceed the maximum provider limit on the number of tags
When you create tags, you can select the option to save invalid tags as local tags (not materialized tags).
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Provider tag support
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Abiquo supports local tags for all providers, including private cloud, and provider tags in public cloud.
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You can user use Abiquo provider tags on the following resources in these cloud providers.
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