[compute|aws] Tags not saved when creating a server

[dbackeus]

Creating an EC2 server through Compute with tags provided does not persist the tags on the amazon instance.

compute = Fog::Compute.new :provider => 'AWS' # etc...
server = compute.servers.create :tags => {"Name" => "Awesome", "environment" => "staging"}
server.tags # => {"Name" => "Awesome", "environment" => "staging"}
server.wait_for { ready? }
server.reload.tags # => {}

[geemus]

It is true that this doesn't work (and probably should). In the mean time you can use tags if you separate them out. You can create tags such as the ones you mention by first creating the server and then doing something like:

compute.tags.create(:resource_id => server.identity, :key => 'Name', :value => 'Awesome')
compute.tags.create(:resource_id => server.identity, :key => 'environment', :value => 'staging')

After that, server.reload.tags should do as you expect. I'm leaving this issue open until I can look at adding the behavior you mentioned, but this should provide a workaround (and it isn't my highest priority to support the other way, as it is likely to be tricky/error prone and I'm trying to finish up a release at the moment).

Let me know if that workaround doesn't work for you and I'll try to clarify and/or fix it up.

Thanks!
wes

[dbackeus]

Thanks a lot for the compute.tags examples.