How to tag EBS volume using Ansible?

Question

I want to add name or tag property when adding/attaching a new EBS volume to EC2 instance, but I don't see ansible ec2_vol doing that. It only allows name: to attach existing EBS volume, not when creating new one. Probably there is other way around ?

Answer 1

I think you need to use the ec2_tag module after the volume has been created.

(See documentation here http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_tag_module.html )

You'll need the volume id, but the ec2_vol module returns that so you should be able to register the result.

The first example of the ec2_tag module shows tagging a volume

tasks:
- name: tag a resource
  ec2_tag: resource=vol-XXXXXX region=eu-west-1 state=present
  args:
    tags:
      Name: ubervol
      env: prod