Understood i have not supplied the owner in the aws ec2 describe command,
but if use the following code in the packer, it does not yield latest 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
}
am i missing anything ? please let me know.
Awaiting your response.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 11:06:45 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen
wrote:
>
> 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]
> <javascript:>> 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
>>
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