Question

I’m playing around with Chef to launch EC2 instances. Everything is working pretty well, but Chef doesn’t seem to have the ability to tag the instances. Am I missing something?

Otherwise, what’s the preferred Ruby library for achieving this? Can I do it without requiring additional gems?

Thanks

Answer 1

Version 0.5.12 of the knife-ec2 Gem supports tagging EC2 instances on creation with the --tags option.

knife ec2 server create [... your options...] --tags Tag=Value