hcl to markdown table generator

Generates a python table from hcl variables.

Useful for documenting Terraform variable files in markdown format

Prerequisits

pip install pyhcl

example usage

with an input like this

variable "datacenter" { 
  description = "Data center to provision in"
  default = "ams03" 
}

variable "key_name" { 
  description = "Name or reference of SSH key to provision softlayer instances with"
  default = ""
}

variable "servers" {
  description = "Number of servers to provision"
}

Doing this $ python hcl2mdt.py variables.tf

will give you that

| Variable   | Default | Required | Description                                                        |
|------------|---------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| datacenter | ams03   | No       | Data center to provision in                                        |
| servers    |         | Yes      | Number of servers to provision                                     |
| key_name   | ""      | Yes      | Name or reference of SSH key to provision softlayer instances with |

which Github parses like this

Variable	Default	Required	Description
datacenter	ams03	No	Data center to provision in
servers		Yes	Number of servers to provision
key_name	""	Yes	Name or reference of SSH key to provision softlayer instances with

if you wish to specify a default for blank values you can do this $ python hcl2mdt.py variables.tf n/a and it will insert n/a in any place where there is no default value