How to add tags to Buildbot EC2LatentBuildSlave - amazon-ec2

Question

I am using EC2LatentBuildSlave to sawn EC2 instances running the build slaves. I would like to tag the slaves so a tag is visible in the EC2 dashboard Tags tab.
I am passing
tags={'Key':'BuildbotType', 'Value':'slaveName'}
but I can’t see the tags in the spawned EC2 instance.
Have I misunderstood this parameter?
Thank for your help.

Answer 1

This seems like a bug in buildbot version 0.8.12. Unfortunately we can't upgrade at this point. Instead I installed a init script (service) on the base AMI that reads user_data and tags its self. I pass the tag details using the user_data field in EC2LatentBuildSlave.
login_aws() {
# Some code to configer aws access keys.
}
get_userdata() {
AWS_USERDATA=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data)
echo $AWS_USERDATA
}
tag_self_for_identification() {
login_aws
INSTANCE_ID=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id)
if [ -z "$INSTANCE_ID" ]; then
echo "Error unable to obtain instance id"
return 0
fi
USERDATA=get_userdata
set $USERDATA
NAME="$2 $3"
if [ ! -z "$NAME" ]; then
echo "aws ec2 create-tags --resources $INSTANCE_ID --tags Key=Name,Value=$NAME"
aws ec2 create-tags --resources $INSTANCE_ID --tags Key=Name,Value="$NAME" \
Key=Buildbot,Value=Latentslave
fi
}
tag_self_for_identification
This is an extremely over engineered solution. However I need tags to work for some lambda functions to be able to identify these latentlsaves