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Helm convert data for nginx template

Im using the following file by helm

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: nginx-cfg
data:
  default.conf: |-
  {{ .Files.Get "config/nginx.conf" | nindent 4 }}

and I got the following error:

Error: YAML parse error on ops/templates/config/nginx.conf: error converting YAML to JSON: yaml: line 4: mapping values are not allowed in this context

The nginx file looks like following

nginx.conf

server {
    listen       80;
    listen  [::]:80;
    server_name: {{ print "kiftb." .Values.global.host | quote }} // this is the error line
...

The line with the sever_name create the error.

Any idea how to solve it?

update

As suggested by @Evan I’ve tried to remove the colon,

server_name {{ print "kiftb." .Values.global.host | quote }}

And I got an error:

error unmarshaling JSON: while decoding JSON: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type releaseutil.SimpleHead
helm.go:81: [debug] error unmarshaling JSON: while decoding JSON: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go value of type releaseutil.SimpleHead

Any Idea how to overcome this? is there any workaround ?

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  1. 0

    Try removing the colon after server_name.

    server_name {{ print "kiftb." .Values.global.host | quote }}

    …

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  2. 0

    Sounds like you put the conf file in a wrong path. Helm deals with all the files inside ${chart_path}/templates/ as template or tpl files, which should be composed in YAML file. So basically you are facing the issue that helm are trying to parse ops/templates/config/nginx.conf as a template file, and definitely it will fail.
    The solution would be: move your conf file out of the path ops/templates, use ops/config/nginx.conf would be fine, and you even do not need change anything in your configmap script, it will work.

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