How can I automatically cycle a new image in an AWS Auto Scaling Group?

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Published on 2012-04-30T17:59:05Z Indexed on 2012/11/12 5:02 UTC
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I have a web application setup with a load balancer and auto scaling group to manage scaling. The source code is in a git repository so I don't have to update the images when the code changes, but occasionally the environment changes so we create a new image. Then that image needs to be cycled into the auto scaling group.

Is there a way to cycle the images automatically? Right now I schedule a scale up and scale down action which gets rid of the old instances.

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