System Manager - Create a package - Manifest building

Question

I am building a new manifest JSON for the deployment of an SSM distributor package to deploy a security tool to our hosts. This encompasses Windows and Linux (Centos, Ubuntu, Debian, and Amazon Linux 1, 2, and 2023), and I am unable to locate the specific **"platform-version**" details for my different Linux-based deployments.

Due to the nature of our deployed software, I need to define different installers based on the Linux platform. Traditionally, we were able to use "_any" for the platform, but this is no longer the case. Our security tool requires a specific version for Amazon Linux 1, versus 2, and 2023. This is also the case for our RHEL deployments.

Example "packages": { "amazon": { "_any": { "x86_64": { "file": ".testfile.zip"

Reviewing the documentation, I was unable to determine how these versions are defined or the process to find them. My issue only lies with the Linux side; we can use the "_any" variable for "platform-version" to handle Windows installs.

**Package References -** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor.html#what-is-a-package-platforms

**SSM Create a Package** - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor-working-with-packages-create.html

Answer

In the documentation there's an example file that you can download and there it shows an example of the manifest:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor-working-with-packages-create.html#:~:text=package%20to%20an,An%20example

This is a preview of the Linux with the specific version inside the manifest:
`
"ubuntu": {
            "16.04": {
                "x86_64": {
                    "file": "ExamplePackage_UBUNTU.zip"
                }
            }
        }
`

System Manager - Create a package - Manifest building

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