Upcoming change in 1.24: tags in EC2

[Dimiter Naydenov]

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On 22.05.2015 11:07, Andrew Wilkins wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Dimiter Naydenov 
> <dimiter.naydenov at canonical.com
> <mailto:dimiter.naydenov at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 22.05.2015 08 <tel:22.05.2015%2008>: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.
> 
> 
>> Not sure I follow. We're creating the instances; they have not
>> had names up until now (in EC2). When we get to adding these tags
>> to existing instances, I agree that we should not replace the
>> existing name if it has one.
Yes, of course - if we're creating them, that's fine. Sorry, I was
thinking of tagging existing entities (e.g. Subnets as belonging to a
space, without creating them).

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>> On OpenStack we will continue to set names as we did before.
>> There we will just set additional metadata for the environment
>> UUID.
> 
> 
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Dimiter Naydenov <dimiter.naydenov at canonical.com>
Juju Core Sapphire team <http://juju.ubuntu.com>
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