Backslashes in Vsphere passwords are interpreted as escape characters in generated YAML

[jaredcookaws]

What happened:

EKS Anywhere installation on vSphere failed with error:

"error: error parsing STDIN: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 11: found unexpected end of stream\n"}

I found that in the generated YAML config, the vSphere password is being added as a value in between double quotes. When the backslash is at the end, it escapes the last double quote. I presume that when the backslash is not at the end, the password is just incorrect when converted to JSON.

What you expected to happen:

Expected the EKS Anywhere installer to begin creating cluster nodes in vSphere.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Use a vSphere password with a backslash, exported to the shell with:

export EKSA_VSPHERE_PASSWOR='mypassword\'

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• EKS Anywhere Release: 0.16.5
• EKS Distro Release: 1.27