Discovery and storage of resource tags

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• remotely accessing, by one or more processors and using credentials, a cloud-based service, wherein the cloud-based service provides a remote computing infrastructure;
• executing, by the one or more processors, a discovery pattern to obtain copies of one or more tags configured in the cloud-based service, wherein the one or more tags each include a key field, a value field, and a resource identifier field, and wherein each resource identifier field uniquely specifies a respective computational resource of one or more computational resources of the cloud-based service;
• associating, by the one or more processors, the one or more tags that were discovered to one or more configuration item representations of the one or more computational resources stored in a configuration management database (CMDB) by:
• matching the resource identifier field of each respective tag to an additional resource identifier field of a respective configuration item representation of the one or more configuration item representations;
• and
• generating an association between the respective tag and the respective configuration item representation based on the resource identifier field matching the additional resource identifier field;
• and
• storing, by the one or more processors and in the CMDB, the one or more tags and their respective associations to the one or more configuration item representations.

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• remotely accessing, using credentials, a cloud-based service, wherein the cloud-based service provides a remote computing infrastructure;
• executing a discovery pattern to obtain copies of one or more tags configured in the cloud-based service, wherein the one or more tags each include a key field, a value field, and a resource identifier field, and wherein each resource identifier field uniquely specifies a respective computational resource of one or more computational resources of the cloud-based service;
• associating the one or more tags that were discovered to one or more configuration item representations of the one or more computational resources stored in a configuration management database (CMDB) by:
• matching the resource identifier field of each respective tag to an additional resource identifier field of a respective configuration item representation of the one or more configuration item representations;
• and
• generating an association between the respective tag and the respective configuration item representation based on the resource identifier field matching the additional resource identifier field;
• and
• storing, in the CMDB, the one or more tags and their respective associations to the one or more configuration item representations.