Textfsm

Motivation In migrating our NOC website to from a traditional Apache server to a serverless architecture, I’ve needed to update or replace any dynamic components. For example, replacing a Wordpress installation with Hugo to publish static content to a S3 bucket served by CloudFront. In this particular case, it was a CGI script that reads our firewall configurations and presents a web page for visualizing and searching the many object-groups and access-lists. I chose to migrate this to run as a Lambda. ...

Motivation I was creating a TextFSM template, and was disappointed with the lack of syntax highlighting support for this filetype in my favorite text editor. Typically, this is just a plugin away, but an exhaustive search turned up nothing. So, like all good geeks, I rolled up my sleeves and made one myself. Process Over the years, I have written little snippets in my .vim/syntax/ directory, or added some missing syntax to someone else’s syntax plugin, but had never written one from scratch. ...