Filter snapshot

[nnat...@ucsd.edu]

I was wondering if there was a way to filter a source snapshot for a volume. I am creating a volume using launch_block_device_mappings from a given snapshot. I would like to have this snapshot_id not be a hard coded value but rather a filter that picks out the latest snapshot. Is there a way to do this in packer? I see other types of filters in the docs: subnet filters, ami filters, security group filters, etc. But I do not see a snapshot filter. Is this something that can be done in packer? 

[Rickard von Essen]

It can't be done directly in packer, but you can use the cli to find the snapshot ID and pass it as a variable. 

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 20:26 <nnat...@ucsd.edu wrote:

I was wondering if there was a way to filter a source snapshot for a volume. I am creating a volume using launch_block_device_mappings from a given snapshot. I would like to have this snapshot_id not be a hard coded value but rather a filter that picks out the latest snapshot. Is there a way to do this in packer? I see other types of filters in the docs: subnet filters, ami filters, security group filters, etc. But I do not see a snapshot filter. Is this something that can be done in packer? 

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