Support Custom SSM Alias

[meetreks]

Tell us about your request

Hi Team,

As per the code here https://github.com/aws/karpenter/blob/main/pkg/providers/amifamily/ami.go#L135 , SSM Alias for AMI seems to be handled but I understand speaking the the engineer that this is default SSM alias and hence custom SSM alias is not handled (yet). The documentation for this is available here -- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/using-systems-manager-parameters.html

Can I kindly request we can override with custom SSM alias to pick up the latest custom AMI to be used with Launch Template?

Regards, Ramesh M

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?

I would like Karpenter to be able to use Custom AMI from SSM as described here -- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/using-systems-manager-parameters.html

Are you currently working around this issue?

As this feature is not available, we are not able to work around this issue.

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