Tags Not Being Deployed to Server Farm with Azure ARM template

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EDIT 11/15/2016: This was a bug in Azure which was fixed a couple of days ago.

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Original post:

I'm trying to create several app services which depend on a server farm. I'm using an ARM template to deploy it. I'm using the same tags and tag format on every other resource in the template and they are getting created, but for some reason the tags on the server farm aren't. I can create the tags on the server farm through the Azure Portal and the Resource Explorer, but not through the ARM template.

Here's part of my resources section:

{
    "comments": "",
    "type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",
    "sku": {
        "name": "S3",
        "tier": "Standard",
        "size": "S3",
        "family": "S",
        "capacity": 1
    },
    "tags": {
        "tag1": "[parameters('tag1Value')]",
        "tag2": "[parameters('tag2Value')]",
        "tag3": "[parameters('tag3Value')]",
        "tag4": "[parameters('tag4Value')]",
        "tag5": "[parameters('tag4Value')]",
        "tag6": "[parameters('tag6Value')]",
        "tag7": "[parameters('tag7Value')]"
    },
    "name": "[variables('serverFarmName')]",
    "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
    "location": "[parameters('location')]",
    "properties": {
        "name": "[variables('serverFarmName')]",
        "numberOfWorkers": 1
    },
    "dependsOn": []
},
[...]

Any known issues with this? Do I have the tags in the wrong place?

Edit 8/8/2016: Deploying just a server farm works correctly, but as soon as I add a site to that server farm the tags aren't deployed correctly. Here's what happens: Deployment starts, the server farm is created. Before the site is created I can rush into the Azure portal and see the tags created correctly on the server farm. As soon as the site is created I refresh, go back into the server farm, and the tags have disappeared.

Answer 1

It works fine on my side, you can try to leverage the Azure Resource Group project in Visual studio as mentioned at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaevans/2015/11/22/creating-arm-templates-with-azure-resource-explorer/.

Here is my simple test template for your information:

{
    "$schema": "http://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "tag1Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag2Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag3Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag4Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag5Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag6Value": { "type": "string" },
    "tag7Value": { "type": "string" },
    "garysfName": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1
    },
    "garysfSKU": {
      "type": "string",
      "allowedValues": [
        "Free",
        "Shared",
        "Basic",
        "Standard"
      ],
      "defaultValue": "Free"
    },
    "garysfWorkerSize": {
      "type": "string",
      "allowedValues": [
        "0",
        "1",
        "2"
      ],
      "defaultValue": "0"
    }
  },
    "variables": {
    },
  "resources": [
      {
          "name": "[parameters('garysfName')]",
          "type": "Microsoft.Web/serverfarms",
          "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
          "apiVersion": "2014-06-01",
          "dependsOn": [ ],
        "tags": {
          "displayName": "garysf",
          "tag1": "[parameters('tag1Value')]",
          "tag2": "[parameters('tag2Value')]",
          "tag3": "[parameters('tag3Value')]",
          "tag4": "[parameters('tag4Value')]",
          "tag5": "[parameters('tag4Value')]",
          "tag6": "[parameters('tag6Value')]",
          "tag7": "[parameters('tag7Value')]"
        },
          "properties": {
              "name": "[parameters('garysfName')]",
              "sku": "[parameters('garysfSKU')]",
              "workerSize": "[parameters('garysfWorkerSize')]",
              "numberOfWorkers": 1
          }
      },
  {
      "name": "[variables('garyarmwebappName')]",
      "type": "Microsoft.Web/sites",
      "location": "[resourceGroup().location]",
      "apiVersion": "2015-08-01",
      "dependsOn": [
          "[concat('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('garysfName'))]"
      ],
      "tags": {
          "[concat('hidden-related:', resourceGroup().id, '/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('garysfName'))]": "Resource",
          "displayName": "garyarmwebapp"
      },
      "properties": {
          "name": "[variables('garyarmwebappName')]",
          "serverFarmId": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/', parameters('garysfName'))]"
      }
  }

  ],
    "outputs": {
    }
}

And the parameters JSON file:

{
    "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2015-01-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
    "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "tag1Value": { "value": "tag11" },
    "tag2Value": { "value": "tag22" },
    "tag3Value": { "value": "tag33" },
    "tag4Value": { "value": "tag44" },
    "tag5Value": { "value": "tag55" },
    "tag6Value": { "value": "tag66" },
    "tag7Value": { "value": "tag77" },
      "garysfName": {
          "value": "garyserverfarms"
      }
  }
}

And you can refer to https://ms.portal.azure.com/?flight=1&flight.browsegrid2=true&flight.pov2=true&flight.resourcemenuperf=true#blade/HubsExtension/SubscriptionTagsListBlade to check the tag list on Azure portal.