Tag Terraform AWS resources using a label module

[matthew-a-carr]

Why

We need a way of tagging our AWS modules in a consistent way to help manage, organise, search for, and filter resources. The Cloud Posse Label Module is the most popular label module from the Terraform Registry and has great supporting documentation.

This will also help us start to think about defining other required environments: UAT, Production.

How

• Create a tags.tf file and create label modules for our AWS resources
• Read through the Cloud Posse Label Module documentation for guidance on tagging strategies. I.e: When should you define/re-use a label definition.
• Tag required resources using created labels

Links

• AWS Tagging Resources
• Label modules from Terraform Registry
• Cloud Posse Label Module

[matthew-a-carr]

@paulgutman FYI, please could you add a comment on here as to what tags you would like to see on all beacon resources created within AWS

[paulgutman]

I think we should have the following tags
Service
Environment
owner

Where
Service is Beacons
Environment is Dev, UAT or Production
Owner - email address of the Beacons team

Happy to discuss

[matthew-a-carr]

@paulgutman thank you, all that makes sense.

Currently, we have been using the environments: dev, staging and production. Do you have a preference of using UAT over staging - there's no additional effort at this point to change to using UAT if you would rather us?

[paulgutman]

No staging is fine 👍

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