Create and edit instance tags

The instances created on a cloud provider can be assigned special metadata to help manage, bill or audit the resources. On AWS they referred to asinstance tags. We provide a way to create and edit these from theYugaWare universe dashboard.

NoteWe provide this option to set instance tags for AWS cloud provider only currently.

1. Create instance tags

During the universe creation step, with an AWS cloud provider, YugaWare will provide the option to input the instance tags as a map of keys/values as shown below.

User can provide these key/values in any order.

Templated tags

Name is the only key that can have templated tags, so it can be made of different parts filled in at run-time to determine node and instance names.

• The parts of the template should be enclosed between ${ and }.
• The reserved keywords that can be specified: universe, instance-id, zone, and region.
• Templated tag value needs to have instance-id at the minimum.
• Order of the parts of template do not matter.

Check Cloud Provider instances

Browse to the cloud provider’s instances page. In this example, since we are using AWS as the cloud provider, browse to EC2 -> Running Instancesin the correct availability zone and search for instances that have test-tags in their name. You should see something as follows in theTags tab of those instances.

Noteyb-server-type and launched-by are internally reserved key names.

2. Edit instance tags

The map of instance tags can be changed using the edit universe operation. One can modify, insert or delete existing instance tags as shown below:

These are changes, compared to the input during the create universe:

• Billing was modified.
• MyInfo was deleted.
• NewInfo was added.
• Department was not changed in any way.Note that Name key field cannot be edited in any form.

As before, one can confirm on the cloud provider list of instances that the tags have been updated correctly: