The Senza::Elastigroup component encodes the EC2 userdata script using base64.urlsafe_b64encode(). When the input contains the character >, the creation of the Elastigroup fails.
This happens because the URL implementation of Base64 encoding replaces the 62nd character with the character - instead of the expected +.
Note: The patch command also uses the base64.urlsafe_b64encode() function.
A brief test didn't show any error when using AWS Auto Scaling Group but it also caused the Elastigroup call to fail.
The
Senza::Elastigroupcomponent encodes the EC2 userdata script usingbase64.urlsafe_b64encode(). When the input contains the character>, the creation of the Elastigroup fails.This happens because the URL implementation of Base64 encoding replaces the 62nd character with the character
-instead of the expected+.Botocore uses a different approach. This is the true base64 encoding.
Note: The patch command also uses the
base64.urlsafe_b64encode()function. A brief test didn't show any error when using AWS Auto Scaling Group but it also caused the Elastigroup call to fail.