korvike/README.md

Luzifer / korvike

korvike is the finnish translation to the word "replacer" and that is what it does: It takes a Go template and executes it.

Available functions

• {{ .<variable name> }}
  Take key-value pairs from the CLI and replace them inside the template

  $ echo "{{ .foo }}" | korvike -v foo=bar
  bar
  

• {{ b64encode <string> }}
  Encodes the string with base64 StdEncoding

  $ echo '{{ b64encode "Hello World" }}' | korvike
  SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=
  

• {{ env <variable name> [default value] }}
  Read environment variables and replace them inside the template

  $ export FOO=bar
  $ echo '{{ env "FOO" }}' | korvike
  bar
  

• {{ file <file name> [default value] }}
  Read a file and place it inside the template

  $ echo "Hello World" > hello
  $ echo '{{ file "hello" }}' | korvike
  Hello World
  

• {{ markdown <source> }}
  Format the source using a markdown parser

  $ echo '{{ markdown "# headline" | korvike }}'
  <h1>headline</h1>
  

• {{ now <format string> }}
  Format the current date into the template (uses Go time format)

  $ echo '{{ now "2006-01-02 15:04:05" }}' | korvike
  2017-04-17 16:27:34
  

• {{ tplexec (file "my.tpl") }}
  Execute the given template with the same function set and variables as the parent template.

  $ export FOO=bar
  $ echo '{{ env "FOO" }}' >my.tpl
  $ echo '{{ tplexec (file "my.tpl") }}' | korvike
  bar
  

• {{ vault <path> <key> [default value] }}
  Read a key from Vault using VAULT_ADDR and VAULT_TOKEN environment variables (or ~/.vault-token file) for authentication.

  $ vault write secret/test foo=bar
  $ echo '{{ vault "secret/test" "foo" }}' | korvike
  bar