terraform/website/docs/configuration/functions/filesha256.html.md

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functions	filesha256 - Functions - Configuration Language	docs-funcs-crypto-filesha256	The filesha256 function computes the SHA256 hash of the contents of a given file and encodes it as hex.

filesha256 Function

-> Note: This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and earlier, see 0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax.

filesha256 is a variant of sha256 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string.

This is similar to sha256(file(filename)), but because file accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to create hashes for binary files.