AWS cloud formation Template- providing Tags for the stack in the template

Question

We wanted to use company specific Tags to the resources that we create in AWS for billing purposes. I am using a cloud formation template to spin up our Elasticbeanstalk instanc

Answer 1

In the template anatomy, you cant set stack-level tags directly. However you can create a wrapper template, having a single resource of AWS::CloudFormation::Stack.

You can define stack-level tags on that resource:

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "WrapperTemplate",

  "Resources": {
    "WrappedStackWithStackLevelTags": {
      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack",
      "Properties" : {
        "Tags" : [ { "Key" : "Stage", "Value" : "QA" } ],
        "TemplateURL" : "your-original-template-s3-url"
      }
    }
  }
}

Answer 2

When launching AWS CloudFormation, the tags being requested will be applied to the CloudFormation Stack itself and (where possible) will also be propagated to the resources launched by the Stack.

These tags can be passed to the CreateStack API call, or from the CLI:

• See: create-stack CLI documentation

These tags are applied to the whole Stack and aren't included in the CloudFormation template.

However, CloudFormation templates can include tags for specific resources that are being created. For example, when launching Amazon EC2 instances, tags can be included in the template:

"MyInstance" : {
    "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
    "Properties" : {
        "SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "MySecurityGroup" } ],
        "AvailabilityZone" : "us-east-1a",
        "ImageId" : "ami-20b65349",
        "Volumes" : [
            { "VolumeId" : { "Ref" : "MyEBS" },
                       "Device" : "/dev/sdk" }
        ],
        "Tags" : [
            {
                "Key" : "Stage",
                "Value" : "QA"
            }
       ]
    }
}