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Question

currently I want to create simple automation that will tag my Azure resources based on content of json file. To parse json into tags that can be used inside az tag update I'm using jq with command jq -rj '. | to_entries[] |" \"\(.key)\"=\"\(.value)\""'.
This is returning tags in a format that is consumed by AZ CLI i.e:
"primary_owner"="Owner Name" "primary_email"="owner#owner.com" "deplyment_version"="1.0.0" "project_epic"="" "project_feature"="" "project_name"="DIF" "project_billing_name"="DIF" "cost_center"="" "owner_email"="" "incident_management_application_id"="ServiceNow" "environment"="PROD NEW" "opco"="PROD NEW" "department_name"="DATA and ANALYTICS"
Problem that I'm facing right now is that when I copy-paste those tags into a command
az tag update --operation Replace --resource-id /subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTON/resourceGroups/$RESOURCE --tags "primary_owner"="Owner Name" "primary_email"="owner#owner.com" "deplyment_version"="1.0.0" "project_epic"="" "project_feature"="" "project_name"="DIF" "project_billing_name"="DIF" "cost_center"="" "owner_email"="" "incident_management_application_id"="ServiceNow" "environment"="PROD NEW" "opco"="PROD NEW" "department_name"="DATA and ANALYTICS"
everything is working fine with output looking like
"properties": {
"tags": {
"cost_center": "",
"department_name": "DATA and ANALYTICS",
"deplyment_version": "1.0.0",
"environment": "PROD NEW",
"incident_management_application_id": "ServiceNow",
"opco": "PROD NEW",
"owner_email": "",
"primary_email": "owner#owner.com",
"primary_owner": "Owner Name",
"project_billing_name": "DIF",
"project_epic": "",
"project_feature": "",
"project_name": "DIF"
}
However whenever I try to get them using any command i.e
az tag update --operation Replace --resource-id /subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTON/resourceGroups/$RESOURCE --tags $(jq -rj '. | to_entries[] |" \"\(.key)\"=\"\(.value)\""'`)
or by running
jq -rj '. | to_entries[] |" \"\(.key)\"=\"\(.value)\""'` > file
az tag update --operation Replace --resource-id /subscriptions/$SUBSCRIPTON/resourceGroups/$RESOURCE --tags $(less file)
my command is completely messed up and shows every escaped " character and output looks like
"properties": {
"tags": {
"\"cost_center\"": "\"\"",
"\"department_name\"": "\"DATA",
"\"deplyment_version\"": "\"1.0.0\"",
"\"environment\"": "\"PROD",
"\"incident_management_application_id\"": "\"ServiceNow\"",
"\"opco\"": "\"PROD",
"\"owner_email\"": "\"\"",
"\"primary_email\"": "\"owner#owner.com\"",
"\"primary_owner\"": "\"Owner",
"\"project_billing_name\"": "\"DIF\"",
"\"project_epic\"": "\"\"",
"\"project_feature\"": "\"\"",
"\"project_name\"": "\"DIF\"",
"ANALYTICS\"": "",
"NEW\"": "",
"Name\"": "",
"and": ""
}
Any idea what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

tag my Azure resources based on content of json file.
I have reproduced in my environment and got expected results as below and I followed Microsoft-Document:
$res= Get-Content "Path"
$answer=az tag update --operation Replace --resource-id "XX" --tags $res
$answer | ft
Path- Path of the file or files Location
XX- Resource Id
y.json:
"primary_email"= "owner#owner.com"
"primary_owner"= "Owner-Name"
"project_billing_name"= "DIF"
"project_epic"= " "
"project_feature"= " "
"project_name"= "DIF"
Output:
In Azure Portal(Just to check) Output: