Tagging of instances on AWS

[ivyleavedtoadflax]

Is it possible to apply tags to instances created on AWS? I've tried the --label option, but I can't see where this is propagated into instances in AWS.

[DavidGOrtega]

👋 @ivyleavedtoadflax very good suggestion. Indeed Im changing the title to make it more assertive.

No right now its not doing that but I agree that should be happening like the name is actually synced.

[ivyleavedtoadflax]

Is there any update on this on? My use case is the following:

I need to be able to see which resources relate to which project so that I can bill clients appropriately.

Since we use tags for other AWS resources, it would make sense if we could use tags in this case, but in the interim I can use the instance labels. This adds an extra manual step for each client, so it would be good if I could avoid it!

[dacbd]

@DavidGOrtega @0x2b3bfa0

I am not sure of the status of this issue.

I plan to attempt to implement this functionality unless a team member is actively developing it.

In my use case, I need to add several tags 3-5 to all AWS resources for tracking/billing; If you can provide an example of how you would see this best passed to the cml-runner, I am willing to submit a PR here and upstream. I saw a previous upstream PR, but it looked like this only added specific tags and didn't allow users to add their own tags arbitrarily.

[0x2b3bfa0]

Proposed syntax: --cloud-metadata="key=value" --cloud-metadata="key=value" ··· or --cloud-metadata "key=value" "key=value" ··· with yargs.array(); the word metadata is subject to change as per iterative/terraform-provider-iterative#185

Draft

const yargs = require("yargs");

function equalDelimitedToObject(items) {
  const keyValuePairs = items.map((item) => [...item.split(/=(.+)/), null]);
  return Object.fromEntries(keyValuePairs);
}

const options = {
  "cloud-metadata": {
    array: true,
    string: true,
    coerce: equalDelimitedToObject,
    demandOption: true,
  },
};

const { cloudMetadata } = yargs.strict().options(options).parse();

console.log(cloudMetadata);

[0x2b3bfa0]

• Depends on Support for cloud resource metadata terraform-provider-iterative#185 and, probably, on Unify commands and centralize logging #703 to avoid rebasing commits.

[0x2b3bfa0]

🔔 Carbon copy to @danielbarnes to avoid effort duplication.

[0x2b3bfa0]

Glad you found the snippet above useful. It has been hidden as a comment in the edit history of #430 (comment) for a long time, just as a note to my future self. XKCD 1421.