Organizing Resources with Tags

As your cloud infrastructure grows, keeping track of individual resources can become challenging. Tags are simple metadata labels (key-value pairs) that you can attach to your resources to organize them logically.

What is a Tag?

A tag consists of two parts:

• Key: The name of the tag (e.g., Environment, Project, CostCenter).
• Value: The specific value assigned to that key (e.g., Production, Alpha-App, Marketing).

For example, you could tag all instances and volumes belonging to your production web app with Environment: Production.

Tag Definitions (Centrally Managed)

To prevent typos and ensure consistency across your organization, LYNIO Cloud uses Tag Definitions.

Instead of typing free-form text every time you tag a resource, administrators define the allowed Tags (and optionally, allowed values) centrally at the Tenant level.

1. Go to Organization > Tag Definitions.
2. Create a new definition (e.g., Key: Department).
3. Now, this tag is available to be assigned to any resource in your tenant.

Assigning Tags to Resources

You can assign tags to almost any resource, including Instances, Volumes, VPCs, and Load Balancers.

1. Navigate to the resource you want to tag (e.g., Compute > Instances).
2. Click on the specific instance to open its details.
3. In the Tags section, click Manage Tags.
4. Select the tag from your predefined Tag Definitions and assign a value.
5. Click Save.

Filtering and Billing

Tags are incredibly powerful when combined with the LYNIO billing engine. At the end of the month, you can generate cost reports grouped by your tags. For instance, you can easily see exactly how much your Project: Alpha-App cost across compute, networking, and storage. You can also use tags to quickly filter resources in the console lists.