Terraform Configuring Vault - Certificate importing string literal issue

[walker.h...@gmail.com]

Ive what should be a simple json literal issue. IM curious how others handle using TF to populate vault and what im missing functionally. Clearly it works in the CLI so its a syntax/command understanding issue on my part. 


any advice or expertise is appreciated, thank you. 



############################# the .tf #############################

resource "vault_generic_secret" "Cert-pem" {

path = "CertStore/Cert-pem"

depends_on = ["vault_mount.CertStore-MOUNT"]

data_json = <<EOT

{

"value":          "${data.template_file.Cert-pem.rendered }"

}

EOT

}

data "template_file" "cert-pem" {

template = "${file("certs/Cert-pem")}"

}
############################# the .tf #############################





############################# the Errror #############################

Error: Error running plan: 1 error(s) occurred:

* vault_generic_secret.Cert-pem: invalid character '\r' in string literal
############################# the Errror #############################




############################# the  Successful CLI  #############################

[ ~]$ vault write CertStore/cert-pem \ value="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

> MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEA33DbTbVLvdRyQ4gzOKgP3xmHdLJZQFkhjMR5PhrSAz1frMOD9DLOrgSWoXAz

........

> RNXoOsNzZy36GNc2SJR5yo30WLA1fT2RHTK9Ev9w0QP8pHmXTLhWipbzCYumKQn4CIUunA==

> -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"

Success! Data written to: CertStore/cert-pem
############################# the  Successful CLI  #############################

[walker.h...@gmail.com]

nevermind, figured it out.. its the base64encode option

data "template_file" "cert-pem" {

template = "${base64encode("certs/Cert-pem")}"

}

it was simple.. cheers.