On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AFAIK, currently the "tags" are supported only in EC2.
>
> So, changing the cartridge definition for that seems to be not good.
> However this is JSON and we can just add the tags for the definitions.
>
> But adding another element to Cartridge definition means there will be lot
> of code changes.
>
> When I was working with vCloud, I noticed each vCloud object can have
> metadata. I'm not sure about OpenStack yet, but may be we can have a
> generic solution for all IaaSes.
>
> There is also an option to avoid changing the Cartridge definition and add
> each tag as a property. We might need to add another property to identify
> tags.
>
>
> "property":[
> {
> "name":"instanceType",
> "value":"m3.medium"
> },
> {
> "name":"keyPair",
> "value":"r2-azdev1"
> },
> {
> "name":"tagPrefix",
> "value":"tag-"
> },
> {
> "name":"tag-name",
> "value":"DEV Stratos"
> },
> {
> "name":"tag-owner",
> "value":"Lahiru"
> }
> ],
>
+1... Will do like this.
BTW. What do you mean by tagPrefix?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Lahiru Sandaruwan <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a requirement to add tags to the instances created through cloud
>> controller. jclouds supports tags already.
>>
>> Since we have to support several tags, we will not abe to support them at
>> properties.
>>
>> How about cartridge definition with iaasProvider like following(Adding
>> optional 'tag' element),
>>
>> "iaasProvider":[
>> {
>> "type":"ec2-west",
>> "imageId":"us-west-1/ami-2a39076f",
>> "maxInstanceLimit":"5",
>> "property":[
>> {
>> "name":"instanceType",
>> "value":"m3.medium"
>> },
>> {
>> "name":"keyPair",
>> "value":"r2-azdev1"
>> }
>> ],
>> "tag":[
>> {
>> "name":"name",
>> "value":"DEV Stratos"
>> },
>> {
>> "name":"owner",
>> "value":"Lahiru"
>> }
>> ],
>>
>> }
>>
>> send your thoughts over.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>
>
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>
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>
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