Upcoming change in 1.24: tags in EC2

[Dimiter Naydenov]

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On 22.05.2015 08:26, Andrew Wilkins wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a small announcement, in case anyone cares. In the EC2
> provider, from 1.24, we will start tagging instances and volumes
> with their Juju-internal names and the Juju environment UUID.
> Instances, for example, will have a name of "machine-0",
> "machine-1", etc., corresponding to the ID in "juju status". There
> is not currently an upgrade step to tag existing resources, so only
> newly created resources will be tagged.
> 
> The environment UUID can be used to identify all instances and
> volumes that are part of an environment. This could be used to for
> billing purposes; to charge the infrastructure costs for a Juju
> environment to a particular user/organisation.
> 
> We will be looking at doing the same for OpenStack for 1.24 also.
> 
> Cheers, Andrew
> 
> 
I assume we won't tag instances with a Name tag if there already is
one, right? Otherwise it's a bad UX.

For OpenStack, we should use instance names the same way (and only if
the name is not already set), as tags not supported widely yet.

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Dimiter Naydenov <dimiter.naydenov at canonical.com>
Juju Core Sapphire team <http://juju.ubuntu.com>
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