String Beginning with '{' Interpreted as List

[rawkode]

Terraform, Provider, Kubernetes and Helm Versions

Terraform version: 1.4.6
Provider version: 2.9.0
Kubernetes version: 1.25

Affected Resource(s)

• helm_release

Terraform Configuration Files

    "helm_release": {
      "name-helm-release_F3925D07": {
        "//": {
          "metadata": {
            "path": "name/name/name-helm-release",
            "uniqueId": "name-helm-release_F3925D07"
          }
        },
        "chart": "...",
        "name": "nmame",
        "provider": "helm.helm-eu",
        "repository": "....",
        "set_sensitive": [
          {
            "name": "externalDatabase.password",
            "type": "string",
            "value": "${random_password.name-password_D1E943D2.result}"
          }
    ]
}

Debug Output

I've modified the password, but the shape is the same.

helm_release.name-helm-release_F3925D07: Modifying... [id=name]
╷
│ Error: failed parsing key "externalDatabase.password" with value {1uaB44>D>!/E1V, list must terminate with '}'
│
│   with helm_release.name-helm-release_F3925D07,
│   on cdk.tf.json line 270, in resource.helm_release.name-helm-release_F3925D07:
│  270:       }
│
╵

NOTE: In addition to Terraform debugging, please set HELM_DEBUG=1 to enable debugging info from helm.

Panic Output

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Expected Behavior

Terraform should be able to pass the value to Helm

Actual Behavior

It seems that Terraform thinks the value is a list and not a string

Important Factoids

References

• 🌱 Bump k8s.io/client-go from 0.27.1 to 0.28.1 #1234

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[rawkode]

Looks like this may be a Helm bug instead:

helm/helm#4030

[rawkode]

Closing in favour of #1158