Labeling Resources

[noizo]

Hi.

Google has changed something with labeling instances recently.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/labeling-resources

I've been using labeling this way before:

 resource "google_compute_instance" "name" {
  tags         = ["${var.name}", "no-ip", "postgres"]

It worked fine, but now it applies only to Tags, and not Labels.
There are no docs in terraform covering Labeling on Google provider, so i think this future is missing.

[rileykarson]

Hi @noizo!

Labels and Tags were decoupled as of May 01, 2017. We have an ongoing issue tracking general labels support at #17, and work on supporting them across resources is in progress. For google_compute_instance specifically, labels support landed in #150 and was part of release 0.1.2 on July 20th.

This isn't currently reflected on the website documentation, and I don't expect it will be until Terraform 0.10 releases. In the meantime, you can view the documentation in the source repo, with the disclaimer that it's tracking HEAD and not the 0.1.2 release.

If you're interested in other resources, feel free to file issues or comment on #17! We generally prioritise adding support to resources that have specific demand when adding general support for a feature like this.

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