Posts tagged Cloudflare
Removing invalid state from Terraform
- 23 April 2022
Terraform keeps a cache of state files in the .terraform directory stored in Terraform Cloud so that it can be accessed by everyone in the organization. For existing resources Terraform has to import the state for a defined resource otherwise it will fail. Sometimes the state is invalid or an API will return an unexpected code and Terraform will fail to proceed.
The example below passed the error from the Cloudflare API via Terraform Cloud to the user but does not indicate the error. After verifying the state manually some resource records were already removed from the zone and triggered an 81044 error. But the state was not removed and Terraform Cloud could not find the resource record to remove from the state database.
Migration to Cloudflare Pages
- 23 December 2021
What started as a custom content management system quickly moved to WordPress to improve its maintainability and that solution served its purpose over the years. Having an easy web-based editor to maintain every is a good thing, but sadly also a bad thing. WordPress is a known target for attacks and you have to keep up to not be compromised, but this also means you have to keep up with how WordPress generates its pages otherwise the pages will not be shown correctly.
To reduce time and complexity, another solution was required as deploying WordPress with content every time wasn’t very effective. Most of the content was already in Markdown format to bypass certain limitations the next step came how to deploy them from GitHub. Static website generators like Jekyll, Sphinx, and Pelican came into the picture as they would remove the dependencies for installing code and a database.