Error when --var values start with an &

[sneal]

Each vars value is interpolated and are unmarshalled as yaml via the imported bosh cli lib so when you have a var value that starts with an ampersand it causes an error. For example:

$ om configure-director \
  --config director.yml \
  --var "iaas-configurations_0_vcenter_password=&qgz6dUjD^Rj3S6e"

Deserializing variables 'iaas-configurations_0_vcenter_password=&qgz6dUjD^Rj3S6e': yaml: did not find expected alphabetic or numeric character

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[sneal]

The workaround is to shove everything in a yaml file with double quotes around the value.

iaas-configurations_0_vcenter_password: "&qgz6dUjD^Rj3S6e"

om configure-director \
  --config director.yml \
  -l vars.yml

[jtarchie]

If this is an issue here, it is most likely an issue with the bosh cli, too. This might have to resolve upstream.