ssh-key upload using awscli v2

[kniec]

Just a small update on the “Using Spot Instances with EKS” lab.
On the “Create an SSH key page”:
https://ec2spotworkshops.com/using_ec2_spot_instances_with_eks/prerequisites/sshkey.html

Now that we have AWS CLI 2.0 the command to upload the public key to AWS fails:

aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name "eksworkshop" \
        --public-key-material file://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

will generate an error Invalid base64

The command needs a minor tweak to work:

aws ec2 import-key-pair --key-name "eksworkshop" \
        --public-key-material fileb://~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub” will work as desired.

Simply changing file:// to fileb:// is all it takes.

Worth updating as this caught out everyone and had us stuck for about 15 minutes. Not fun with 20 customers in a virtual event J

Cheers,
Greg

[allamand]

I think this is addressed in #77