AWS-CLI: Ways to list down autoscalinggroups

Question

Is there a way to list down the available AutoScalingGroups under an account and filter on top of it based on some tags?
I am looking for something like aws ecs list-clusters which gives list of ecs clusters.

Answer 1

Yes. You can use JMESPath syntax to filter the results of aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups command down to only those groups matching some tag's key/value pair. This uses the --query parameter, which is available for filtering on most AWS CLI commands.

Example to query by a single tag:

The example below filters results based on a tag where Key = 'Environment' and Value = 'Dev'.

aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups --query "AutoScalingGroups[? Tags[? (Key=='Environment') && Value=='Dev']]".AutoScalingGroupName

Example to query by multiple tags:

The example below filters results based on tags where Key = 'Environment' and Value = 'Dev', and Key = 'Name' and Value = 'MyValue'. This uses a pipe to query for the second tag on the resulting autoscaling groups of the query for the first tag.

aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups --query "AutoScalingGroups[? Tags[? (Key=='Environment') && Value=='Dev']] | [? Tags[? Key=='Name' && Value =='MyValue']]".AutoScalingGroupName

Further Reading

• AWS Documentation - aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups
• AWS Documentation - Controlling Command Output from the AWS Command Line Interface

Answer 2

The below AWS CLI command gives Auto Scaling Group with Tag having Key == Product and Value == test for a profile of account1

aws --profile account1 autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups \
--query 'AutoScalingGroups[?contains(Tags[?Key==`Product`].Value, `test`)].[AutoScalingGroupName]' --region eu-west-1 --output table