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

Without having to sort the results, you can filter them specifying the imageTag=latest on image-ids, like so:

aws ecr describe-images --repository-name foo --image-ids imageTag=latest --output text

This will return only one result with the newest image, which is the one tagged as latest