05 Oct 2015 | | terraform, provisioning, aws, hashicorp, devops
In my last post I covered the basics of provisioning a single EC2 instance with terraform. This time we’re going to go further and explore the provisioners and some other features. I’m doing some pretty funky things just to show the power of terraform. As you’ll see later there are other (better) ways.
This is a short post about a nginx gotcha that stumped me for a few minutes. tl;dr nginx servernames using wildcards can only occur if they are preceding a dot.
30 Dec 2014 | | pygments, lexer, pocoo, python, coding, programming
In my last post I added a lot of Terraform code snippets. The syntax of .tf files is similar to JSON, except with less commas and built in functions. In writing the post I naively tried to use JSON syntax highlighting for my code snippets but this didn’t come out as I’d hoped. Unfortunately there didn’t appear to be a format that would syntax-highlight the configuration file in a nice way. Eventually I settled for using ‘console’ syntax highlighting which is quite plain and dull. It made me wonder how this was handled and how easy it would be to take care of this functionality myself. I quick bit of Github and Google surfing led me to Pygments which is how this is handled in my blog. I decided to have a go at creating a Terraform lexer. I thought I’d document some of my experience of this and give a quick run through of how its done.