I would like to store a key as a secret in Pulumi in the configuration.

The key has the following structure

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx -----END PRIVATE KEY-----

But, when adding it into the configuration, I face 2 problems:

• A config setting starting by ----- gives error.
• Pulumi is converting \n to \\ so it gives error while trying to pull the key as a secret.

I've tried all the formats, to store it as a --plaintext and other solutions proposed here but didn't work.

I would appreciate if someone can bring some light here. Thank you in advance.

CodePudding user response：

You need to pipe the key from stdin like so:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | pulumi config set secretKey --secret