Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:37:46 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to base64 encode and upload userdata for EC2 Launch Template Message-ID: <00238cea-75dc-57e2-a304-671a8dc5f5b5@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <A599F311-0169-44B3-99DC-9A6E9799F112@rafal.net> References: <16C73F7C-3673-44CC-B59E-DA247A0C2DF7@rafal.net> <cf173794-32c0-b898-4b23-8ecc7abb039e@freebsd.org> <A599F311-0169-44B3-99DC-9A6E9799F112@rafal.net>
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Try it without the 'y' flag. It's possible that this will produce something too big to pass as a user-data file; but if it's small enough this would be a useful indication of where the problem lies. Colin Percival On 3/11/19 12:24 PM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > I have been using “tar cvyf fff ddd”, which I think is a compressed tarball using bzip. Should I use something else? > > I have also noticed odd behaviour in the Console for LCs, but different behaviour in the Console for LCs, and yet different for CLI… > > Thank you, Colin. > Rafal > >> On 11 Mar 2019, at 19:21, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On 3/11/19 2:42 AM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: >>> I hope someone can explain, as I have been lost in this for over a week. I would like to pass a small (4-5kB) tarball of files for the built-in cloud init script of the official FreeBSD 12.0 EC2 AMI to get untarred and processed (>, >>, or #!) upon instance launch. I have successfully done it for over 2 years using Launch Configurations but I cannot make it work using the new Launch Templates. >> >> Is this a tarball, or a compressed tarball? >> >> There's a longstanding bug (which I'm told is going to get fixed eventually!) >> in the AWS Console whereby any non-7-bit-clean user-data files get mangled >> and come out with each byte UTF-8 encoded. I was only aware of this as an >> issue with the Console but it's entirely possible that someone at Amazon wrote >> the same bug in multiple places. >> >> -- >> Colin Percival >> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve >> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid > > > -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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