Yes rickard, the latest ami what i was getting was from an unknown owner. When i did supply the owner, the ami id's is consistent
Thanks for you pointing it and thanks for your help. Thanks & Regards, Majid M A On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:14 PM Mohammed Majid <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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/CAGr0K9c9JXoe8xiLrRCCy9Fzm_xGaX8ap%2BC6P-z%2Bh-x5gUApeA%40mail.gmail.com.
