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Get the value of an EC2 instance's tag
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# | |
# Get the value of a tag for a running EC2 instance. | |
# | |
# This can be useful within bootstrapping scripts ("user-data"). | |
# | |
# Note the EC3 instance needs to have an IAM role that lets it read tags. The policy | |
# JSON for this looks like: | |
# | |
# { | |
# "Version": "2012-10-17", | |
# "Statement": [ | |
# { | |
# "Effect": "Allow", | |
# "Action": "ec2:DescribeTags", | |
# "Resource": "*" | |
# } | |
# ] | |
# } | |
# Define the tag you want to get the value for | |
KEY=bucket | |
# Install AWS CLI (you could just do 'apt-get install awscli' although you'll | |
# get an older version). | |
apt-get update | |
apt-get install -y python-pip | |
pip install -U pip | |
pip install awscli | |
# Grab instance ID and region as the 'describe-tags' action below requires them. Getting the region | |
# is a pain (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4249488/find-region-from-within-ec2-instance) | |
INSTANCE_ID=$(ec2metadata --instance-id) | |
REGION=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document | grep region | awk -F\" '{print $4}') | |
# Grab tag value | |
TAG_VALUE=$(aws ec2 describe-tags --filters "Name=resource-id,Values=$INSTANCE_ID" "Name=key,Values=$KEY" --region=$REGION --output=text | cut -f5) |
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