Would like to clean AMIs by custom tag.

[bonclay7]

Would like to clean AMIs by custom tag.

[bonclay7]

Hi !

If I understand correctly what you want to do, I think yes it's possible.

You can specify that you want to group your AMIs based on the tags, with all the tags you provide, the tool will match all the AMIs with the same Tags keys and values together and then regroup them.

Let's say I have 3 AMIs : 2 test-1, and 1 test-1, all with the same SourceAmi tag.

The following run :

amicleaner --full-report --mapping-key tags --mapping-values SourceAmi Name --keep-previous 0

will result with this :

ami-ed82e39e.test-1
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|    AMI ID    |        AMI Name       |      Creation Date       |
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
| ami-0badf878 | gatling-61e878a | 2016-11-03T10:45:49.000Z |
| ami-86d287f5 | gatling-8d2c6bc | 2016-11-03T13:09:10.000Z |
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+

test-2
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
|    AMI ID    |        AMI Name       |      Creation Date       |
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+
| ami-c398afa5 | gatling-61e878a | 2017-03-15T17:01:13.000Z |
+--------------+-----------------------+--------------------------+

AMIs to be removed:
+---------------------+------------+
|      Group name     | candidates |
+---------------------+------------+
| ami-ed82e39e.test-1 |     2      |
|        test-2       |     1      |
+---------------------+------------+

please let me know

[rquadling]

The tags are custom tags, not named AMIs. All the AMIs are named based upon the nature of their use (i.e. app, cron, etc.), not upon the expected environment.

As an example, these are the tags I have for a production-master AMI

[bonclay7]

Actually, the Name I used in my example is a tag, like most of AWS resources. Go ahead and try to give the custom tag keys you want to filter on.