The ec2.py dynamic inventory script does not group RDS instances by tag

[karlmdavis]

This makes it unpossible to delete (or otherwise poke at) RDS instances by tag. This would be useful in all the same ways that grouping EC2 instances by tag, e.g. for maintaining separate dev/production instances via an "Environment" tag.

[karlmdavis]

As an ugly workaround, you can append the environment name to the RDS instance's instance_name property, instead.

For example:

- name: RDS - Provision 'myinstancename'
  rds:
    command: create
    region: "{{ region }}"
    instance_name: myinstancename-{{ env }}
    db_engine: postgres
    size: 10
    instance_type: db.t2.medium
    publicly_accessible: false
    username: "{{ postgres_dev_master_username }}"
    password: "{{ postgres_dev_master_password }}"
    tags:
      # Note: it will create the tag, but that tag won't be used for any grouping when the inventory is built via ec2.py.
      Environment: "{{ env }}"
    wait: true
    wait_timeout: 900

[aioue]

#15609

[nethershaw]

#15609 does not solve this issue. It provides tags for RDS clusters, but not RDS instances.

Why would clusters have received this fix before instances? What obstacles remain to expose the resource tags of RDS instances via dynamic inventory?

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[ghost]

Any movement on this issue since May? Seems to not be supported still and would be useful for our use case.

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