Re: [packer] AMI Tags not propagated to other accounts?

2018-04-09 Thread Byte Flinger
Thank you very much for the answer Rickard. It is too bad one cannot rely on that functionality but at least I am now aware of the issue. On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, 11:08 Rickard von Essen, wrote: > This is how AWS works. AMI's can be shared with other accounts, basically

Re: [packer] AMI Tags not propagated to other accounts?

2018-04-06 Thread Rickard von Essen
This is how AWS works. AMI's can be shared with other accounts, basically giving them read access. But tags are a separate construct, metadata separate from the resources they "tag". They are not shared and and not visible from the other account just because the AMI is shared. The other account

[packer] AMI Tags not propagated to other accounts?

2018-04-06 Thread Byte Flinger
I have built an AWS AMI image using the EBS backed builder and I set the "ami_users" to a couple of different accounts so the ami is available for using in all of these acounts. I noticed that the AMI in the account which I built the image on has all the AMI tags I configured in the packer