InvalidUserData.Malformed) when calling the CreateLaunchTemplate operation

[bjxuch]

I follow the instruction and base64 the user data file, but failed on 'aws ec2 create-launch-template --launch-template-name runningAmazonEC2WorkloadsAtScale --version-description dev --launch-template-data file://launch-template-data.json'
the error is 'An error occurred (InvalidUserData.Malformed) when calling the CreateLaunchTemplate operation: Invalid BASE64 encoding of user data.'

[ranshn]

hi @bjxuch in the "UserData" part of the launch-template-data.json file, did you paste the actual user-data or the path to the file that contains your user data? can you please use a BASE64 decoder to check that your encoded string is ok. otherwise can you please upload your edited launch-template-data.json here or paste the content?

[bjxuch]

pls refer the screen shot
base64 --wrap=0 user-data.txt > user-data.base64.txt

adminUser:~/environment/ec2-spot-workshops/workshops/running-amazon-ec2-workloads-at-scale (master) $ base64 --decode user-data.base64.txt
repo_update: true
repo_upgrade: all

packages:

• wget
• ruby
• curl
• amazon-efs-utils

runcmd:

• [ sh, -c, "curl https://aws-codedeploy-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/install -o /home/ec2-user/install" ]
• [ sh, -c, "chmod +x /home/ec2-user/install" ]
• [ sh, -c, "./home/ec2-user/install auto" ]
• [ sh, -c, "systemctl enable codedeploy-agent.service" ]
• [ sh, -c, "systemctl start codedeploy-agent.service" ]
• [ sh, -c, "mkdir -p /var/www/media" ]
• [ sh, -c, "echo 'fs-e22b8000:/ /var/www/media efs tls,_netdev' >> /etc/fstab" ]
• [ sh, -c, "mount -a -t efs defaults" ]
• [ sh, -c, "chown -R ec2-user. /var/www/media" ]

adminUser:~/environment/ec2-spot-workshops/workshops/running-amazon-ec2-workloads-at-scale (master) $ aws ec2 create-launch-template --launch-template-name runningAmazonEC2WorkloadsAtScale123 --version-description dev --launch-template-data file://launch-template-data.json

An error occurred (InvalidUserData.Malformed) when calling the CreateLaunchTemplate operation: Invalid BASE64 encoding of user data.

[ranshn]

Thanks for attaching user-data.base64.txt , can you please attach launch-template-data.json