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Escape Sequences in Terraform for Literal Special Characters

E.g $${ can be used where you want a literal ${ . I found that I needed to do this recently when using the Terraform Helm Provider to deploy Elastic Beats.

Terraform is trying to interpolate where it sees the special characters and is having difficulty either because the expected var has not been defined or because the contents of the heredoc is not as terraform is expecting.

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