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Use latest Ubuntu AMI as base for our AMIs

Balasankar 'Balu' C requested to merge update-base-ami into master

Closes: #5145 (closed)

Development log:

  • Use the latest (as of now, the one released in 2020-05-21) Ubuntu AMI (hvm, ebs-ssd)
  • Run apt-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.
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