tf-provider-memegen

This project is my experiment with writing a custom Terraform provider. Used the documented Img Flip API.

I learned that APIs that don't have CRUD HTTP endpoints are challenging to make TF providers for, given how Terraform expects providers to work. Still, this was a fun side project

Build and Install

• Prerequisites - Terraform 0.12 or higher, Go 1.17
• Run go mod init and go mod tidy from project root
• go build -o terraform-provider-meme && cp terraform-provider-meme ~/.terraform.d/plugins/github.com/preetapan/meme/1.0.0/<target_arch>

Steps

• Sign up for an account at imgflip.com
• Set your user name to the env var MEMEGEN_USERNAME and password to MEMEGEN_USERNAME=
• terraform apply . Example output with the generated meme's URL :

Outputs:
meme_url = "https://imgflip.com/i/5zc8z1"

• The API takes a template_id and meme text. Find other meme ids at popular meme IDs

Known issues

This API doesn't have delete implemented, so terraform destroy doesn't actually do anything