Packer amazon-ebs builder source_ami_filter Issue

[Josh Lynn]

Hello All,

I'm experiencing an issue with my packer.json file with what appears to be a configuration issue with the source_ami_filter object.  I receive the following error when trying to run packer (via Jenkins):

2016/12/06 22:10:01 Preparing build: amazon-ebs
2016/12/06 22:10:01 Build 'amazon-ebs' prepare failure: 1 error(s) occurred:

* unknown configuration key: "source_ami_filter"
2016/12/06 22:10:01 ui error: Template validation failed. Errors are shown below.
2016/12/06 22:10:01 ui error: Errors validating build 'amazon-ebs'. 1 error(s) occurred:

I'm using the following 'builders' configuration:

"builders": [

    {

      "type": "amazon-ebs",

      "ssh_username": "ubuntu",

      "region": "{{user `packer_region`}}",

      "source_ami_filter": { "filters": {

          "virtualization-type": "hvm", 

          "name": "*ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-*", 

          "root-device-type": "ebs" }, 

          "owners": ["099720109477"], 

          "most_recent": true 

      },

      "encrypted": "true",

      "instance_type": "{{user `packer_instance_type`}}",

      "iam_instance_profile": "{{user `packer_iam_instance_profile`}}",

      "vpc_id": "{{user `packer_vpc_id`}}",

      "subnet_id": "{{user `packer_subnet_id`}}",

      "security_group_id": "{{user `packer_security_group_id`}}",

      "ami_name": "{{user `role`}}-{{user `environment`}}- {{timestamp}}"

    }

  ],

Packer version is 0.10.1.  

According to the amazon-ebs builder documentation here:  https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html I should be able to use source_ami_filter and have that do a dynamic lookup of the latest ami I'm looking for to build into my base image.  I can run things fine if I use source_ami and I hardcode or pass the ami into the source_ami object as a string, but I am trying to use some build-in functionality within packer to improve our pipeline a bit.

Alternatively, I attempted to put in a shell provisioner to find the AMI using the AWS CLI (See below), and I can still work that angle, but I wanted to try the method mentioned above with packer as it seems a bit cleaner.

AWS CLI example:

aws ec2 describe-images  \

  --region us-east-1 \

  --filter Name=owner-id,Values=099720109477  \

  --query 'Images[? starts_with(ImageLocation, `099720109477/ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server`)] | sort_by(@, & ImageLocation) | [-1] | ImageId'  --out text --profile hl-prod

I would appreciate any assistance on this.

Thank you!

Josh

[Rickard von Essen]

This is a new feature, upgrade to 0.12.0. 

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[Josh Lynn]

Thanks Rickard, I was alerted to this by someone in the packer-tool IRC channel.  

I upgraded to 0.12.0 and this feature is working quite well for me!

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