Ubuntu Images Scraper

• Ubuntu images scraper
  • Motivation
  • Usage
    • Input and Output
  • Limitation / Cavetas
  • Versioning

This scraper enables you to retrieve Ubuntu image ID(s) available on various public clouds. Ubuntu is a complete Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. If you want to know more about ubuntu, check following docs.

Motivation

Imagine you have tons of deployments running in public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud,..) on Ubuntu as your base operating system. These images needs to be periodically updated for reasons like:

• new features
• bug fixes
• security patches

This scraper saves you time by extracting relevant image IDs for your cloud provider. You can even hook some post-processor to it (for example opening Pull-Request to your repository).

Usage

Run as actor on Apify Platform. One run of this actor consumes cca 0.003 CU, with memory size 1024 MB. Use of apify proxy is not required for this actor.

Input and Output

This scraper fetches data from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/. As you can see dropdowns at the bottom of the page corresponds with inputs.

Name	Description	Example
Cloud	Select images only for specific cloud provider	Amazon AWS
Zone	Zone ~ group of data-centers	us-east-1
Name	Ubuntu friendly name	focal
Version	Ubuntu version	20.04
Architecture	Processor architecture	amd64
Instance type	Instance type depending on cloud provider	hvm-ssd
Release	Ubuntu release	20200729
ID	Image ID	ami-0758470213bdd23b1
Number of results	Number of image descriptions to be fetched	1

All of the inputs above are optional. However it is not very useful not to provide any, since they enable you to filter through all the images available.

With following input example you will get latest release of Ubuntu 20.04 in AWS Northern Virginia region.

Input:

1{
2    "cloud": "Amazon AWS",
3    "zone": "us-east-1",
4    "name": "focal",
5    "version": "20.04",
6    "arch": "Any",
7    "instanceType": "hvm-ssd",
8    "numberOfResults": 1
9}

Output:

1[
2    {
3        "cloud": "Amazon AWS",
4        "zone": "us-east-1",
5        "name": "focal",
6        "version": "20.04",
7        "arch": "amd64",
8        "instanceType": "hvm-ssd",
9        "release": "20200729",
10        "id": "ami-0758470213bdd23b1"
11    }
12]

Limitation / Cavetas

• Maximum number of results is limited to 100 due to source page limitations

Versioning

Versioning upholds to Apify standards. See docs for more information.