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Pathead
Pathead

Reputation: 778

How to use templatefile in terraform EC2 launch template user data?

I am setting up an EC2 launch template with a user data powershell script and would like to be able to use templatefile in the script itself. I was able to do this with an auto scaling launch configuration because it accepts the user data as a string. With EC2 launch templates it requires it to be a base64encoded string and it did not seem to accept this:

user_data = "${base64encode(<<EOF
  <powershell>
  $file_content = @"
  ${templatefile("myfile.txt", var.myfilevars)}
  "@
  </powershell>
EOF"
)}"

Is there a variation of the above that would work? Or another way to accomplish this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5967

Answers (1)

Robbie
Robbie

Reputation: 86

I think you may have an extra double quote ", specifically the one right after your EOF.

Try this:

user_data = "${base64encode(<<EOF
  <powershell>
  $file_content = @"
  ${templatefile("myfile.txt", var.myfilevars)}
  "@
  </powershell>
EOF
)}"

Upvotes: 6

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