github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/language/functions/filebase64sha256.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: filebase64sha256 - Functions - Configuration Language 3 description: |- 4 The filebase64sha256 function computes the SHA256 hash of the contents of 5 a given file and encodes it with Base64. 6 --- 7 8 # `filebase64sha256` Function 9 10 `filebase64sha256` is a variant of [`base64sha256`](/language/functions/base64sha256) 11 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 12 13 This is similar to `base64sha256(file(filename))`, but 14 because [`file`](/language/functions/file) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 15 create hashes for binary files.