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base64 lookup contents are repr'd as byte strings causing AWS to reject it

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I encountered this when creating an AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration in a CloudFormation template with UserData coming from a file on-disk.

In stacker.yaml:

UserData: ${file base64:file://userdata/asg-mount-efs.bash}

Results in the following being passed to the template as a parameter:

b'mybase64text'

Instead of the expected:

mybase64text

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  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

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acmcelweecommented, Aug 15, 2019
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troyreadycommented, Mar 21, 2019

@jklobo can you put together a reproduction example? gist the stacker config and template/file lookup files?

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