AWS CLI: ECR list-images, get newest

Question

Using AWS CLI, and jq if needed, I\'m trying to get the tag of the newest image in a particular repo.

Let\'s call the repo foo, and sa

Answer 1

You can use describe-images instead.

aws ecr describe-images --repository-name foo 

returns imagePushedAt which is a timestamp property which you can use to filter.

I dont have examples in my account to test with but something like following should work

aws ecr describe-images --repository-name foo \
--query 'sort_by(imageDetails,& imagePushedAt)[*]'

If you want another flavor of using sort method, you can review this post