Failed to find AMI for AWSMachine following the documentation quick start

[jfcavalcante]

/kind bug

What steps did you take and what happened: [A clear and concise description of what the bug is.]

After following the ClusterAPI Provider AWS Quick Start, and creating a cluster with the kubernetes version v1.29.2, as described in the documentation, I've faced the following error:

E0518 20:43:26.820802       1 awsmachine_controller.go:520] "unable to create instance" err="failed to create AWSMachine instance: failed to find ami: found no AMIs with the name: \"capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04-?1.29.2-*\""
E0518 20:43:26.839548       1 controller.go:329] "Reconciler error" err="failed to create AWSMachine instance: failed to find ami: found no AMIs with the name: \"capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04-?1.29.2-*\"" controller="awsmachine" controllerGroup="infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io" controllerKind="AWSMachine" AWSMachine="default/capi-quickstart-control-plane-ghxb2" namespace="default" name="capi-quickstart-control-plane-ghxb2" reconcileID="0e55d5cb-e196-4aad-8abc-3877a24209a7"

The image name string isn't being parsed correctly, and resulting in an error during reconcile.

What did you expect to happen:

The cluster to be completelly provisioned following the commands of the documentation.

Environment:

• Cluster-api-provider-aws version: v2.5.0
• Kubernetes version: (use kubectl version): v1.29.2
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): ubuntu v22.04.4

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[jfcavalcante]

Also tried with kubernetes in v1.27.6, same error occurs.

E0518 21:11:44.458942       1 awsmachine_controller.go:520] "unable to create instance" err="failed to create AWSMachine instance: failed to find ami: found no AMIs with the name: \"capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04-?1.27.6-*\""

[jfcavalcante]

Adding the AMI ID to both AWSMachineTemplate spec solved it for me:

apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta2
kind: AWSMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: capi-quickstart-md-0
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      ami:
        id: ami-0e0ff5dacd34970c0
      iamInstanceProfile: nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
      instanceType: t3.large
      sshKeyName: default

[athiruma]

Query clusterawsadm ami list to find the available AMI versions. If you do not find the supported Kubernetes version AMI, use the latest available AMI equivalent to the latest Kubernetes version.

I encountered the same error, and the above trace resolved it for me.

[driv]

Why is it looking for capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04 where is that specified?

The quickstart guide is not working right now.

[jonatasbaldin]

Following the quick start as of today, I get the following error:

E1009 20:05:54.805162       1 controller.go:329] "Reconciler error" err="failed to create AWSMachine instance: failed to find ami: found no AMIs with the name: \"capa-ami-ubuntu-18.04-?1.31.0-*\"" controller="awsmachine" controllerGroup="infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io" controllerKind="AWSMachine" AWSMachine="default/k8s-test-control-plane-xccfg" namespace="default" name="k8s-test-control-plane-xccfg" reconcileID="3e8ab730-5991-4849-bd85-36a61724864b"

Trying to list the available AMIs, I get this error:

$ clusterawsadm ami list
No AMIs found

[andresanaya21]

I have the same issue as @jonatasbaldin, and now it is impossible to deploy new clusters with capi-cluster. It seems the AWS AMIs are no longer available.

The workaround that @jfcavalcante mentioned above did not work for me. There is an option to set up the ami.id, but this ami.id needs to be customized with multiple dependencies that are not documented (at least I did not find them).

[driv]

I don't remember exactly, but I think I only had to change the imageLookupBaseOS to be able to proceed.

apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta2
kind: AWSMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: capi-quickstart-control-plane-small
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      iamInstanceProfile: control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
      instanceType: t3.small
      sshKeyName: default
      imageLookupBaseOS: ubuntu-20.04