Abstract: A system and method for managing cloud-based infrastructure may include obtaining one or more data objects describing a cloud-based infrastructure that is to be created or updated and analyzing the objects to identify a set of declarations of a respective set of computer resources to be included in the infrastructure. A system and method for managing cloud-based infrastructure may include associating a set of resources with a respective set of tags and including the tags in at least one of the objects to thus produce a modified object. A modified object may be used to create or update an infrastructure.