Hi I m running the Atlantis docker container I don t want to

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Hi I m running the Atlantis docker container I don t want to have to copy my Github app PEM file into the container so I m trying to pass it in as the environment variable ATLANTIS GH APP KEY No matter how I format the string it will not accept it and it gives me the error 31mError initializing server error initializing github authentication transport could not parse private key invalid key Key must be a PEM encoded PKCS1 or PKCS8 key 39m I ve tried just straight copying it and pasting it from the PEM file I ve tried taking out the line breaks I ve tried adding n where there are line breaks No matter what I do it will not take it I tried digging through the source code to see if I could find any validation that you are doing on the string to see how I should format it but I didn t find anything helpful Please advise on how this string needs to be formatted Thanks so much

PePe Amengual · Answer

I m doing this and I pass it as a string and it works just fine

PePe Amengual · Answer

are you sure you are passing the right key

PePe Amengual · Answer

ahhh no I do not do that right now I moved to a ParameterStore secret

PePe Amengual · Answer

but I did have a problem like yours before and it was because I used the wrong key

Dustin · Answer

According to Github the PEM file that is generated is PKCS 1 formatted Based on that I m literally just opening that PEM file in notepad++ and copying the contents into my variable value I know that the key is valid because if I do copy the key file over and point to it with the ATLANTIS GH APP KEY FILE variable then Atlantis loads up just fine

PePe Amengual · Answer

starts with ``` BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY ```

Dustin · Answer

You bet

PePe Amengual · Answer

I used it as a string before in one very long line and I did not have any issues

PePe Amengual · Answer

OHHHHHH

PePe Amengual · Answer

I use `ATLANTIS GH APP KEY` not FILE

PePe Amengual · Answer

so you think the file parsing is the issue

Dustin · Answer

I was just saying that if I pass it the file then that works so I know the PEM file is good

Dustin · Answer

I have tried passing it as one long line and it doesn t take that

PePe Amengual · Answer

ok so the way I have it does not work for you

PePe Amengual · Answer

weird

PePe Amengual · Answer

that version of atlantis

Dustin · Answer

I m using the latest docker image that they have in the github repo

PePe Amengual · Answer

have you enabled debug in atlantis to see if there is any errors

Dustin · Answer

The error is in the original post

PePe Amengual · Answer

ok just saw it

Alberto Rojas · Answer

< PePe Amengual> what was the solution here < Dustin> PR was We are trying to pull the pem string from AWS SecretsManager and we are getting the same error `Error initializing server error initializing github authentication transport could not parse private key invalid key Key must be a PEM encoded PKCS1 or PKCS8 key`

PePe Amengual · Answer

I don t think he found a solution

PePe Amengual · Answer

I use an older version of Atlantis 0 20 1 and I pass the env without the FILE and it works

PePe Amengual · Answer

do you see anything amiss in the code of that PR

PePe Amengual · Answer

that was merged while back

Alberto Rojas · Answer

Sorry I just added the PR as a reference