# gce_tag – add or remove tag(s) to/from GCE instances

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Status

## Synopsis

- This module can add or remove tags https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/label-or-tag-resources#tags to/from GCE instances. Use ‘instance_pattern’ to update multiple instances in a specify zone.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 2.6
- apache-libcloud >= 0.17.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
instance_name - |  | The name of the GCE instance to add/remove tags. Required if `instance_pattern` is not specified.
instance_pattern - |  | The pattern of GCE instance names to match for adding/removing tags. Full-Python regex is supported. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html for details. If `instance_name` is not specified, this field is required.
pem_file - |  | Path to the PEM file associated with the service account email.
project_id - |  | Your GCE project ID.
service_account_email - |  | Service account email.

state
-

Choices:
- absent
- present ←

Desired state of the tags.

tags - / required |  | Comma-separated list of tags to add or remove.
zone - | Default: "us-central1-a" | The zone of the disk specified by source.

## Notes

Note

- Either instance_name or instance_pattern is required.

## Examples

    - name: Add tags to instance
      gce_tag:
        instance_name: staging-server
        tags: http-server,https-server,staging
        zone: us-central1-a
        state: present

    - name: Remove tags from instance in default zone (us-central1-a)
      gce_tag:
        instance_name: test-server
        tags: foo,bar
        state: absent

    - name: Add tags to instances in zone that match pattern
      gce_tag:
        instance_pattern: test-server-*
        tags: foo,bar
        zone: us-central1-a
        state: present

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Do Hoang Khiem (@dohoangkhiem) <(dohoangkhiem@gmail.com>
- Tom Melendez (@supertom)

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