Use latest Ubuntu AMI as base for our AMIs
Closes: #5145 (closed)
Development log:
Use the latest (as of now, the one released in 2020-05-21) Ubuntu AMI (hvm, ebs-ssd)Runapt-get upgrade
as part of build, so that any new security fixes from Ubuntu gets installed- Dynamically choose the latest Ubuntu AMI as base, using
ami_source_filter
directive.- Pros:
- We don't have to remember to update this every now and then.
- Cons:
- Finding out what is the source AMI used requires reading the logs. However, I don't remember a situation when we had to find out that information, ever since AMIs were first introduced.
- Pros:
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