Convert GPG public key to base64 on Salt Master

shell_output_and_notes.txt

$ # Problem:
$ # * Official Debian GNU/Linux AMIs don't have gpg pre-installed.
$ # * We want to bootstrap a host using a salt-cloud deploy script.
$ # * This will add the key to the new host to add the Salt repository.
$ # * We cannot use apt-key so must add the gpg binary into trusted.conf.d
$ #   directly.
$ # * We can base64 encode (base64 command is part of coreutils)
$ #   but ideally won't store the key base64-encoded in pillar.
$ # Solution:
$ # A) Run `apt-get update`, install GnuPG, add the Salt repo key,
$ #    (and repo), run `apt-get update` again... yuck!
$ # B) "dearmor" the key on the salt master during the pillar rendering.
$ #    so /etc/salt/cloud.deploy.d has base64 encoded verion, but the
$ #    original public key is visible in pre-rendered pillar data.
$ #    No need to re-run `apt-get update` so startup is faster.
$ #    Let's go with B.
$ #
$ # The syntax is a bit tricky, so let's simluate what cmd.shell will do:

$ python3
>>> salt = {'saltutil.runner': lambda *x, **y: y['arg']}
>>> x = salt['saltutil.runner']('cmd.shell',
... arg="""[\"""echo '-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
... Version: GnuPG v2
... 
... mQENBFOpvpgBCADkP656H41i8fpplEEB8IeLhugyC2rTEwwSclb8tQNYtUiGdna9
... m38kb0OS2DDrEdtdQb2hWCnswxaAkUunb2qq18vd3dBvlnI+C4/xu5ksZZkRj+fW
... tArNR18V+2jkwcG26m8AxIrT+m4M6/bgnSfHTBtT5adNfVcTHqiT1JtCbQcXmwVw
... WbqS6v/LhcsBE//SHne4uBCK/GHxZHhQ5jz5h+3vWeV4gvxS3Xu6v1IlIpLDwUts
... kT1DumfynYnnZmWTGc6SYyIFXTPJLtnoWDb9OBdWgZxXfHEcBsKGha+bXO+m2tHA
... gNneN9i5f8oNxo5njrL8jkCckOpNpng18BKXABEBAAG0MlNhbHRTdGFjayBQYWNr
... YWdpbmcgVGVhbSA8cGFja2FnaW5nQHNhbHRzdGFjay5jb20+iQE4BBMBAgAiBQJT
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... 4oYTszYM4xrbtjB/fR+mPnYh2fBoQO4d/NQiejIEyd9IEEMd/03AJQBuMux62tjA
... /NwvQ9eqNgLw9NisFNHRWtP4jhAOsshv1WW+zPzu3ozoO+lLHixUIz7fqRk38q8Q
... 9oNR31KvrkSNrFbA3D89uQENBFOpvpgBCADJ79iH10AfAfpTBEQwa6vzUI3Eltqb
... 9aZ0xbZV8V/8pnuU7rqM7Z+nJgldibFk4gFG2bHCG1C5aEH/FmcOMvTKDhJSFQUx
... uhgxttMArXm2c22OSy1hpsnVG68G32Nag/QFEJ++3hNnbyGZpHnPiYgej3FrerQJ
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... MA==
... =dtMN
... -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----' |
... gpg --dearmor |
... base64 -\"""]""")
>>> print(eval(x)[0])
echo '-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v2

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MA==
=dtMN
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----' |
gpg --dearmor |
base64 -
>>> ^D
$ # Copied and pasted from the above:
$ echo '-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
> Version: GnuPG v2
> 
> mQENBFOpvpgBCADkP656H41i8fpplEEB8IeLhugyC2rTEwwSclb8tQNYtUiGdna9
> m38kb0OS2DDrEdtdQb2hWCnswxaAkUunb2qq18vd3dBvlnI+C4/xu5ksZZkRj+fW
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> MA==
> =dtMN
> -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----' |
> gpg --dearmor |
> base64 -
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$ 
$ # Confirmed to work in staging.