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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