Yet another Ubuntu AMI Finder

This one, however, finds AMIs using the AWS cli.

Why?

Other finders use the cloud images page at https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/, or other similar indexes. These tools serve the purpose pretty well, but sometimes have dependencies that don't serve the consuming project very well.

I've been using aws-cli for this recently, however the Makefiles for such invocations get a little unwieldy.

Canonical uploads their images to AWS using a pretty easy to predict structure, which makes setting this up in script pretty easy.

What you need

• aws-cli
• bash 4+.

Supported releases

Note that pre-release versions may not be supported due to the image namespace being different than most, if not all other images (ubuntu/images-milestone versus ubuntu/images).

Usage

    Usage: ./ubuntu-ami.sh OPTIONS

      --release RELEASE        The release name (ie: trusty)
      --image_type IMGTYPE     The image type (ie: hvm-ebs)
      --arch ARCH              The image arch (amd64 or i386)
      --full                   Print all images found

The default behaviour is to print the most recent AMI found in the search.

Output

The output is formatted as [CreationDate,ImageId,RootDeviceName]. This generally gives you enough info to be able to set up a new root device instead of the one in the AMI.

Note that on instance store images, the last column will come up as None. The output is ordered so that the data that will always be useful will be at the start (the first field being creation date).

License

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