Add Custom Tags for VM’s on vSphere using openshift-installer cli

[SergeyHudinskiy]

Is it possible for the openshift-installer to add custom tags for the VM's on the vSphere?

As far as I understand we need to use install-config.yaml , but there is no key called tag for this for example.

I've found the following https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6257541
but it is not clear how to do this.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks
Sergey

[jcpowermac]

@SergeyHudinskiy when installing with IPI vCenter tags are created. UPI the user is responsible for creating the tag.
What is the use-case for "custom tags"?

[SergeyHudinskiy]

Hi @jcpowermac, thanks for your reply. Right, with IPI a specific tag is created, but I would like to add an additional custom tag, it is necessary for implementing backup solution on vSphere. So my questions is Is there a way I can add additional tags to VM's on vSphere using openshift-installer or I need to this manually?

[jcpowermac]

The tags were only created so we can easily delete vCenter objects if someone wants to destroy the cluster. I don't see us adding the ability to create custom tags since that could easily be done day 2 via govc, powercli or the vCenter UI.

[JaimeMagiera]

Right. A simple shell script calling govc could take as input the tag created by the installer, select all objects with said tag, and append additional tags. @SergeyHudinskiy, are you looking to add additional tags to all object types in vSphere, or just VMs, or...?

[SergeyHudinskiy]

Hi @JaimeMagiera I would like to add an additional tag to VM's.

[SergeyHudinskiy]

Thank you so much for you quick answers @jcpowermac and @JaimeMagiera !