azure: malformed storage account key: illegal base64 data at input byte0 terraform CD

Question

Terraform backend uses a deprecated version of terraform and warns that it is been deprecated, even if you pinned to lower version or higher version =2.0.0 or >=0.11 throws malformed storage account key

[DEPRECATED] arm_tenant_id has been replaced by tenant_id[0m

-backend-config=storage_account_name=testcmsaamsdn

-backend-config=container_name=terraform

-backend-config=key=terraform.tfstate

-backend-config=resource_group_name=rg-testconfig-AMSDN

-backend-config=arm_subscription_id=000-000-000-000-000

-backend-config=arm_tenant_id=***

-backend-config=arm_client_id=***

-backend-config=arm_client_secret=***

Failed to get existing workspaces: Error creating storage client for storage account "testcmsaamsdn": azure: malformed storage account key: illegal base64 data at input byte 0[0m

Backend config looks like

terraform {

backend "azurerm" {

storage_account_name = "__terraformstorageaccount__"

container_name = "terraform"

key = "terraform.tfstate"

access_key = "__storagekey__"

}

}

Answer 1

I believe that copy-pasting the inline ps script could produce malformed key.. I rewrote the script and it resolved.