Error Filling in Template "rabbitmq.config.erb' invalid base64 for rabbitmq.config"

Products

• VMware RabbitMQ

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

When you provide a rabbitmq.config file in the RabbitMQ configuring section and it is not base64 encoded, you will get the following error while applying changes:

Deployment name: `p-rabbitmq-1f6f456915554157e448.yml'
Director name: `microbosh-6d032da84fed11813ca4'

Director task 700
  Started preparing deployment
  Started preparing deployment > Binding deployment. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding releases. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding existing deployment. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding resource pools. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding stemcells. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding templates. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding properties. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding unallocated VMs. Done (00:00:00)
  Started preparing deployment > Binding instance networks. Done (00:00:00)
     Done preparing deployment (00:00:00)

Started preparing package compilation > Finding packages to compile. Done (00:00:00)

Started preparing dns > Binding DNS. Done (00:00:00)

Started preparing configuration > Binding configuration. Failed: Error filling in template `rabbitmq.config.erb' for `rabbitmq-server-partition-null-az/0' (line 2: invalid base64) (00:00:00)

Error 100: Error filling in template `rabbitmq.config.erb' for `rabbitmq-server-partition-null-az/0' (line 2: invalid base64)

Task 700 error

For a more detailed error report, run: bosh task 700 --debug
{"type": "step_finished", "id": "bosh.deploying.p-rabbitmq-1f6f456915554157e448"}
Exited with 1.

Environment

Resolution

Take the configuration and base64 and encode it. There is an online tool here that can be used www.base64encode.org or install a tool locally to do it offline.