Coder.com•2w ago

AWS: Can't make searching among custom (private) AMIs work

Hi team! I am building coder workspaces in my AWS account based on EC2 virtual machines. I have built a custom AMI (thanks to EC2 Image Builder). Now I want to use it in a Coder template. I have deployed a Coder instance by subscribing to the official item in AWS Marketplace. Then I created a teamplate based on AWS EC2 starter template. When I use the AMI ID directly, it works! However, when I want to use "aws_ami" to search among my AMIs, it does not find anything. What am I doing wrong?

data "aws_ami" "ubuntu" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "name"
    values = ["*"]
  }
  filter {
    name   = "virtualization-type"
    values = ["hvm"]
  }
  owners = ["self"] 
}

data "aws_ami" "ubuntu" {
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name   = "name"
    values = ["*"]
  }
  filter {
    name   = "virtualization-type"
    values = ["hvm"]
  }
  owners = ["self"] 
}

I tried without any filter, I tried with the AWS account number directly for the owners field... no luck. Any help appreciated! Thanks!

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Codercord•2w ago

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Coder OSS (v2)

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Phorcys•2w ago

hi, maybe using "*" for the name is too broad? maybe try with a more restrictive filter

Rejome•2w ago

OK found it! Your AMIs have to be in the AWS Region: us-east-1 (North Virginia)

Phorcys•2w ago

oh that's weird it doesn't even mention that anywhere

Phorcys•2w ago

I think you should open an issue over at hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

GitHub

Issues · hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources. - Issues · hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

Rejome•2w ago

Good idea! Done: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/39680

GitHub

Allow aws_ami to fetch AMIs from other AWS Regions than us-east-1 ·...

Description I am using coder (www.coder.com) to deploy dev environments on EC2 instances thanks to Terraform. When searching for AMIs to deploy, the data "aws_ami" is looking into us-east...

Phorcys•2w ago

thanks!

Codercord•2w ago

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