args

The arguments of those commands that take arguments. It should be set to a JSON object with the following format:

{"arg_name1" : ["value1", "value2", ...], "arg_name2" : ["value1", "value2", ...], ...}

The update_dependencies command takes two arguments:

• upgrade_os_to - Specifies the Amazon Linux version that you want instances to run, such as Amazon Linux 2. You must also set the allow_reboot argument to true.

• allow_reboot - Specifies whether to allow OpsWorks Stacks to reboot the instances if necessary, after installing the updates. This argument can be set to either true or false. The default value is false.

For example, to upgrade an instance to Amazon Linux 2018.03, set Args to the following.

{ "upgrade_os_to":["Amazon Linux 2018.03"], "allow_reboot":["true"] }