On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:16:36PM +0200, tkoeck wrote:
> is there an AMI image ID that is always the recent one?
That's not how AWS works - every image is always a different ID, just
like every instance is always a different ID.
Instead of hardcoding an AMI somewhere, you can search to find the
current release. With awscli, try something like this:
$ aws ec2 describe-images \
--output text \
--owners 136693071363 \
--filters Name=name,Values="debian-10-amd64-*" \
--query 'Images[].[Name,ImageId]' \
| sort -rn \
| head -n 1 \
| awk '{print $2}'
If you're using terraform, the aws_ami data source works like this:
data "aws_ami" "debian10" {
most_recent = true
owners = ["136693071363"]
filter {
name = "name"
values = ["debian-10-amd64-*"]
}
}
Ross
