# doctl compute tag – DigitalOcean Documentation

> The sub-commands of `doctl compute tag` manage the tags on your account.

Tags are labels that you can apply to resources to better organize them and more efficiently take actions on them. For example, if you have a group of Droplets that you want to place behind the same set of cloud firewall rules, you can tag those Droplets with a common tag and then apply the firewall rules to all Droplets with that tag.

You can tag Droplets, images, volumes, volume snapshots, and database clusters.

Tags have two attributes: a user defined name attribute and an embedded
resources attribute with information about resources that have been tagged.
- [doctl compute tag apply](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/apply/index.html.md): Tag one or more resources. You can tag Droplets, images, volumes, volume snapshots, and database clusters. Resources must be specified as Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and has the following syntax: `do::`.
- [doctl compute tag create](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/create/index.html.md): Creates a new tag that you can apply to resources.
- [doctl compute tag delete](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/delete/index.html.md): Deletes a tag from your account. Deleting a tag also removes the tag from all the resources that had been tagged with it.
- [doctl compute tag get](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/get/index.html.md): Retrieves the number of resources using the tag.
- [doctl compute tag list](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/list/index.html.md): Retrieves a list of all the tags in your account and how many resources are using each tag.
- [doctl compute tag remove](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/compute/tag/remove/index.html.md): Removes a tag from one or more resources. Resources must be specified as Uniform Resource Names (URNs) and has the following syntax: `do::`.