Custom tags are supported for GCP, Azure and AWS cloud. These tags are useful in grouping and managing resources for easier management.

Azure Tags: Tags enable key:value pairs to be created and assigned to resources in Azure. For more information on Azure tags, see Azure Tags.

AWS Tags: To help manage instances, images, and other Amazon EC2 resources, you can optionally assign your own metadata to each resource in the form of tags. For more information on AWS tags, see AWS Tags.

GCP Tags: To help create custom tags for Service Engines.

Configuring Custom Tags using Avi Load Balancer CLI

Service Engine Group

Use the custom_tag tag_key <tag key name> tag_val <tag value> command under the configure serviceenginegroup <name of se group> mode to configure custom tags.

Login to the Avi Load Balancer CLI and run the following commands from the shell mode.

[admin:10-1-1-1]: > configure serviceenginegroup <name of se group>
[admin:10-1-1-1]: serviceenginegroup> custom_tag tag_key <tag key name> tag_val <tag value>
[admin:10-1-1-1]: serviceenginegroup:custom_tag > save
[admin:10-1-1-1]: cloud > save
Note:

Currently, in GCP, SEG Custom tags cannot be added through UI.

Clouds through CLI

The cloud level custom tags are applied at the cloud level that is all the SE VMs created in this cloud, no matter which SE Group, will have these tags.

Note:

SE Group Custom tags take precedence over Cloud Custom tags and thus similar keys will be overridden when merging.

[admin:10-1-1-1]: > configure cloud <name of cloud>
[admin:10-1-1-1]: cloud> custom_tags tag_key <tag key name> tag_val <tag value>
[admin:10-1-1-1]: cloud:custom_tags> save
[admin:10-1-1-1]: cloud> save

Applying Cloud Custom tags can also be achieved through the Controller UI.