On 2/10/20 3:55 am, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:16:36PM +0200, tkoeck wrote:
>> is there an AMI image ID that is always the recent one?
>
> 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}'There's a small tool I wrote earlier in the year to address the problem of quickly finding the latest AMI for a given type. It is now hosted here: https://github.com/sitepoint/amifinder eg. running something like: amifinder --name 'debian-10-amd64-*' 136693071363 in the us-west-2 region would give you: Name: debian-10-amd64-20200928-407 Architecture: x86_64 CreationDate: 2020-09-28T23:58:51.000Z ImageId: ami-06d8a32aedc6986f5 ImageLocation: 136693071363/debian-10-amd64-20200928-407 ImageType: machine Public: True OwnerId: 136693071363 State: available DeviceName: /dev/xvda DeleteOnTermination: True SnapshotId: snap-01eca3d280b2d9f69 VolumeSize: 8 VolumeType: gp2 Encrypted: False Description: Debian 10 (20200928-407) EnaSupport: True Hypervisor: xen RootDeviceName: /dev/xvda RootDeviceType: ebs SriovNetSupport: simple VirtualizationType: hvm I feel it makes things a fair bit easier. Cheers, Adam
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