Tag Overview

Last updated: 2023-09-04 11:02:57

Feature Overview

Tags are key-value pairs provided by Tencent Cloud to easily identify resources. For more information, see Tag Overview.
You can use tags to categorize and manage TencentDB for MySQL resources by various metrics such as business, purpose, and owner. You can also easily find a resource by its tag. In Tencent Cloud, the tag key-value pairs have no semantic meaning and are strictly parsed and matched as strings. To use tags, pay attention to the use limits first.
Here we describe a use case to show how a tag is used.

Case Background

A company owns 10 TencentDB for MySQL instances in Tencent Cloud. Distributed in three departments (ecommerce, gaming, and entertainment), these instances are used to serve internal business lines such as marketing, game A, game B, and post-production. The OPS owners of the three departments are John, Jane, and Harry, respectively.

Configuring Tags

To facilitate management, the company categorizes its TencentDB for MySQL resources with tags and defines the following tag key-value pairs.
Tag Key
Tag Value
Department
E-commerce, Gaming, Entertainment
Business data collection
Marketing Campaigns, Game A, Game B, Post-production
Ops Owner
John, Jane, and Harry
These tag keys/values are bound to TencentDB for MySQL instances in the following way:
instance-id
Department
Business data collection
Ops Owner
cdb-abcdef1
E-commerce
Marketing campaigns
Chris
cdb-abcdef2
E-commerce
Marketing campaigns
Chris
cdb-abcdef3
Gaming
Game A
John Smith
cdb-abcdef3
Gaming
Game B
John Smith
cdb-abcdef4
Gaming
Game B
John Smith
cdb-abcdef5
Gaming
Game B
Jane Smith
cdb-abcdef6
Gaming
Game B
Jane Smith
cdb-abcdef7
Gaming
Game B
Jane Smith
cdb-abcdef8
Entertainment
Post-production
Chris
cdb-abcdef9
Entertainment
Post-production
Chris
cdb-abcdef10
Entertainment
Post-production
Chris

Using Tags

For more information on how to create and delete a tag, see Getting Started with Tags.
For more information on how to edit a tag in TencentDB for MySQL, see Editing Tags.