Default Tagging at the Provider Level to Propagate Tags to All New Relic Resources

[abudri]

Hello!

In discussions with New Relic support, I brought up what I thought would be a fantastic addition to the Terraform New Relic Provider - one that is already available in Terraform AWS Provider - and that is default tagging for all resources. This will allow at the provider block level a single default_tags block and the enclosed tags block to propagate any desired default tags to all New Relic resources (alert conditions, dashboards, workflows, entities/APMs, etc). Link to AWS docs:

https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/default-tags-in-the-terraform-aws-provider
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/guides/resource-tagging#propagating-tags-to-all-resources

For example something simple like this hypothetical

provider "newrelic" {
  default_tags {
    tags = {
      environment      = terraform.workspace
      owner            = "abudri"
      service          = "my service"
    }
  }
}

This is a major resource and plus for us when it comes to Terraform AWS Provider, and it would be fantastic and a great project for the Terraform team at New Relic to embark on, especially considering all the New Relic resources/infra we manage. Relatively little code gets added to a repo that uses default_tags, and there are tremendous and wide spread benefits.