How to set multiline RSA private key environment variable for AWS Elastic Beans

Question

I am deploying a Ruby on Rails application to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and have to set a private key as an environment variable

E.g

-----BEGIN RSA

Answer 1

In I had the same problem with Golang and the elastic beanstalk, I did this went to AWS console and set the value like this:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nSpvpksXQIBA65ICOgQxV2TvMIICAiMeV9prhdJSKjjsk2\ntYdz8lhn/ibROQW71utuHLAyHGMBxz3kIaaIq1kjdkkk\ntYdz8lhn/ibROQW71utuHLAyHGMBxz3kIaaIq1kjdkkk\ntYdz8lhn/ibROQW71utuHLAyHGMBxz3kIaaIq1kjdkkk\ntYdz8lhn/ibROQW71utuHLAyHGMBxz3kIaaIq1kjdkkk\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----  

inside my code

key := os.Getenv("PUSH_AUTH_KEY")
key = strings.Replace(key, `\n`, "\n", 5)