In this blog post, I will show you how I tag an Azure virtual machine using Azure PowerShell.
Azure PowerShell
Microsoft Azure PowerShell allows us to manage Azure resources with the same look and feel PowerShell language and syntax.
Plan
In this demonstration, I will show you how I do the following few things:
- Tag and an Azure VM with a new tag
- Add a tag to an existing tags
- Remove tags from an Azure
Get Azure PowerShell
Before you start, make sure you have Azure PowerShell up and running.
Get VM
Let’s start with getting the details of the VM using the following cmdlet.
#Get VM $vm = Get-AzResource -Name centos -ResourceType Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines
Add new Tag
Now, I will add a tag to an Azure VM without existing tags using the code below:
#Add new Tag
Set-AzResource -ResourceId $vm.ResourceId -Tag @{Type="Linux"} -Force
View Tags
After running the cmdlet, I will check the tags.
#View Tags $vm.Tags
Add a Tag to an existing Tags
To add a new tag to existing tags, I will run the following code.
#Add Tag to existing Tags
$vm.tags.add("Code","9090")
Set-AzResource -ResourceId $vm.ResourceId -Tag $new.tag -Force
Remove Tags
To remove all the tags from a VM I will run the following code:
#Remove Tag
Set-AzResource -ResourceId $vm.ResourceId -Tag @{} -Force