david-ruffin / azureautotagger

Azure AutoTagger is a lightweight, low-cost serverless solution that can easily be deployed to an Azure subscription. Azure AutoTagger automatically applies a LastModifiedBy and LastModifiedTimestamp to resources.

AzureAutoTagger

Azure AutoTagger is a lightweight, low-cost serverless solution that can easily be deployed to an Azure subscription. Once deployed Azure AutoTagger monitors for ResourceWriteSucess events within the subscription and triggers an Azure Function to automatically apply a LastModifiedTimestamp and LastModifiedBy tag.

• https://cloudlumberjack.com/posts/azureautotagger/: More details in a blog post describing the solution.

• https://github.com/david-ruffin/AzureAutoTagger: Contains the ARM template code to deploy the infrastructure and role assignments to the subscription

• https://github.com/david-ruffin/AzureAutoTaggerFunction: Contains the Azure Function PowerShell code

Deployment

Important: You must have Owner permissions on the subscription you intend to deploy this to. The template will create a managed identity and assign it to the Reader and Tag Contributor roles.

Use the Deploy to Azure button to easily deploy this solution in a subscription

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1. Clone the GitHub repo locally

git clone https://github.com/david-ruffin/AzureAutoTagger.git

2. Initiate an ARM Template deployment with Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI

Azure PowerShell:

New-AzDeployment -Location "East US" -TemplateFile ".\azuredeploy.json" -resourceGroupName "rg-autotagger" -Verbose

Azure CLI:

az deployment create --location "West US" --template-file ".\azuredeploy.json" --parameters resourceGroupName=rg-autotagger