search

hashicorp / packer-plugin-amazon

Packer plugin for Amazon AMI Builder
https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon
Mozilla Public License 2.0
76 stars 112 forks source link

Packer not adding Name to AWS source instance #332

Closed alpana17 closed 1 year ago

alpana17 commented 1 year ago

Packer version: 1.8.3 I can see that no "Name" is added to AWS instance like: 2020/03/11 15:32:47 ui: ==> centos7-ami: Adding tags to source instance 2020/03/11 15:32:47 ui: centos7-ami: Adding tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

Has this feature been removed from this packer version? How can I add Name to source instance?

alpana17 commented 1 year ago

Can anyone look into this on priority?

keithalpichi commented 1 year ago

That's correct. Newer versions removed adding "Packer Builder" as the value to the Name tag on the AMI. This is noted in the documentation- "The builder no longer adds a "Name": "Packer Builder" entry to the tags."

If you'd like to add a Name tag use the tags map or tag block.

alpana17 commented 1 year ago

ok, Thanks I have one more query. There was a python module named aws-hashicorp-packer-reaper It used to filter instances based on tag: "Name": "Packer Builder" Is there any other python module that can work for instances created by packer but not having tag: "Name": "Packer Builder"

nywilken commented 1 year ago

@keithalpichi thank you for the assist with this issue. @alpana17 apologies for the delayed response. As mentioned by Keith the default tag was removed since version [packer-plugin-amazon v1.0.9)(https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon/releases/tag/v1.0.9), and can be added back using the run_tags configuration attribute. I believe the tags only applied to the resulting AMI created by Packer.

I recommend running packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-amazon or using packer init if using HCL2 templates to install the latest version of the Amazon plugin for Packer.

I'm going to close this issue as there is nothing to be done in Packer or within the plugin.