filebase64 Function

filebase64 reads the contents of a file at the given path and returns them as a base64-encoded string.

filebase64(path)

The result is a Base64 representation of the raw bytes in the given file.

Nomad uses the "standard" Base64 alphabet as defined in RFC 4648 section 4.

Examples

> filebase64("${path.module}/hello.txt")
SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=

file also reads the contents of a given file, but interprets the data as UTF-8 text and returns the result directly as a string, without any further encoding.
base64decode can decode a Base64 string representing bytes in UTF-8, but in practice base64decode(filebase64(...)) is equivalent to the shorter expression file(...).