Terraform: List of AMI specific to ubuntu 20.08 LTS AWS

Question

Problem: I am using terraform to get a list of AMI for a specific OS - ubuntu 20.08

I have checked different examples link

When I use the script this does not give me list of AMI

Script

data "aws_ami" "ubuntu" {
    most_recent = true

    filter {
        name   = "name"
        values = ["ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-xenial-20.08-amd64-server-*"]
    }
    
    filter {
        name = "virtualization - type"
        values = ["hvm"]
    }

    owners = ["AWS"]
}

I have referred the below link as well

How are data sources used in Terraform?

Output:

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-84-148 ~]$ terraform plan
provider.aws.region
  The region where AWS operations will take place. Examples
  are us-east-1, us-west-2, etc.

  Enter a value: us-east-1

Refreshing Terraform state in-memory prior to plan...
The refreshed state will be used to calculate this plan, but will not be
persisted to local or remote state storage.

data.aws_ami.std_ami: Refreshing state...

------------------------------------------------------------------------

No changes. Infrastructure is up-to-date.

This means that Terraform did not detect any differences between your configuration and real physical resources that exist. As a result, no actions need to be performed.

i am not sure where am I going wrong i have checked a lot of links some i have listed below.

There is no 20.08 and Xenial refers to 16.04. Did you want to use the latest Ubuntu LTS? This is 20.04 and is code named focal. So the AMI you are searching for should be ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-*. Canonical also publish a list of AMIs at cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2. — ydaetskcoR
@ydaetskcoR Yes i need the latest sorry I am not that good in terraform.. kindly guide me >> I am looking for the list o AMI + ubuntu 20.08 — sudlo

Marcin Marcin · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-15T10:23:37

Your data should be:

data "aws_ami" "ubuntu" {

    most_recent = true

    filter {
        name   = "name"
        values = ["ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-*"]
    }

    filter {
        name = "virtualization-type"
        values = ["hvm"]
    }

    owners = ["099720109477"]
}

output "test" {
  value = data.aws_ami.ubuntu
}

The owner of Ubuntu is not AWS, and the image is ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-, not ubuntu-xenial-20.08-amd64-server-.

The above results in (us-east-1):

 {
  "architecture" = "x86_64"
  "arn" = "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1::image/ami-0dba2cb6798deb6d8"
  "block_device_mappings" = [
    {
      "device_name" = "/dev/sda1"
      "ebs" = {
        "delete_on_termination" = "true"
        "encrypted" = "false"
        "iops" = "0"
        "snapshot_id" = "snap-0f06f1549ff7327c9"
        "volume_size" = "8"
        "volume_type" = "gp2"
      }
      "no_device" = ""
      "virtual_name" = ""
    },
    {
      "device_name" = "/dev/sdb"
      "ebs" = {}
      "no_device" = ""
      "virtual_name" = "ephemeral0"
    },
    {
      "device_name" = "/dev/sdc"
      "ebs" = {}
      "no_device" = ""
      "virtual_name" = "ephemeral1"
    },
  ]
  "creation_date" = "2020-09-08T00:55:25.000Z"
  "description" = "Canonical, Ubuntu, 20.04 LTS, amd64 focal image build on 2020-09-07"
  "filter" = [
    {
      "name" = "name"
      "values" = [
        "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-*",
      ]
    },
    {
      "name" = "virtualization-type"
      "values" = [
        "hvm",
      ]
    },
  ]
  "hypervisor" = "xen"
  "id" = "ami-0dba2cb6798deb6d8"
  "image_id" = "ami-0dba2cb6798deb6d8"
  "image_location" = "099720109477/ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-20200907"
  "image_type" = "machine"
  "most_recent" = true
  "name" = "ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-focal-20.04-amd64-server-20200907"
  "owner_id" = "099720109477"
  "owners" = [
    "099720109477",
  ]
  "product_codes" = []
  "public" = true
  "root_device_name" = "/dev/sda1"
  "root_device_type" = "ebs"
  "root_snapshot_id" = "snap-0f06f1549ff7327c9"
  "sriov_net_support" = "simple"
  "state" = "available"
  "state_reason" = {
    "code" = "UNSET"
    "message" = "UNSET"
  }
  "tags" = {}
  "virtualization_type" = "hvm"
}

Terraform: List of AMI specific to ubuntu 20.08 LTS AWS

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