How to apply label to instances of Managed Instance Group?

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Is there a way to automatically apply Labels to instances that are launched by a GCE Managed Instance Group (aka. Instance Group Manager)? I see that you can add Network Tags in the Instance Template (properties.tags), but I don’t see a way to add Labels for use in searching for labeled instances using instances/list.

A workaround would be to manually call setLabels on instances from the Instance Template’s startup-script.

In AWS EC2, the equivalent would be to add Tags to an AutoScalingGroup with PropagateAtLaunch: true.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '17 at 19:27

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Labels are currently a beta feature. You can use the following command to create Compute Engine instance template with labels for your managed instance groups:

gcloud beta compute instance-templates create NAME --labels=[KEY=VALUE,…]

answered Sep 09 '17 at 19:27

Kamran

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Hi Kamran, I right understand, for now, boot disk labels must propagate from instance template labels? – zombi_man Oct 01 '19 at 00:07
Labels link is broken for me despite the URL being correct. – Zach Aug 07 '23 at 17:04

How to apply label to instances of Managed Instance Group?

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