Your describe-images command doesn't filter based on owners which makes it vulnerable to finding images from untrusted/malicious sources.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 18:23 Mohammed Majid <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Packer group, > > I am using latest packer 1.5.4 > > I want to get the latest AMI ID's for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, CentOS7, > AmazonLinux2 > > Packer always uses the AMI ID which is one ami behind the latest ami, even > though i tell to use the latest AMI. > > The following is the aws ec2 command which will return the latest AMI. > > aws ec2 describe-images \ > > --filters > "Name=name,Values=ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*" > \ > > --query 'Images[*].[ImageId,CreationDate]' --output text \ > > | sort -k2 -r \ > > | head -n1 > > > Which returns *ami-092d0fe375260a228 ,* it is the latest one. > > In the packer json template i am using the following. > > "source_ami": "{{user `source_ami`}}", > "source_ami_filter": { > "filters": { > "virtualization-type": "hvm", > > "name":"ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-16.04-amd64-server-*", > "root-device-type": "ebs" > }, > "owners": ["099720109477"], > "most_recent": true > } > > it returns *ami-08bc77a2c7eb2b1da* and is not the latest one. > > In the above code i am passing the latest ami id in the source_ami > variable, its not considering that, instead it picks an ami id which is one > ami behind the latest one. > > Could you please let me know how can i solve this issue ? > > Appreciate your reply. > > Thanks & Regards > Majid M A > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAGr0K9dkPcsy1cJaaGxNke2%3D03CPy-p%3DY8NV8wVsu9-GZkZT4A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAGr0K9dkPcsy1cJaaGxNke2%3D03CPy-p%3DY8NV8wVsu9-GZkZT4A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-nDRX%3DNRsE8uQbkbY3_zoTmf5rzXKH1aE4B8W_6Uwdrg%40mail.gmail.com.
