diff --git a/docs/user-guide/services-firewalls.md b/docs/user-guide/services-firewalls.md
index cc457181d3a..8f39f769d3f 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/services-firewalls.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/services-firewalls.md
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ Google Compute Engine firewalls are documented [elsewhere](https://cloud.google.
 
 You can add a firewall with the ```gcloud``` command line tool:
 
-```
-gcloud compute firewall-rules create my-rule --allow=tcp:<port>
+```console
+$ gcloud compute firewall-rules create my-rule --allow=tcp:<port>
 ```
 
 **Note**
diff --git a/docs/user-guide/services.md b/docs/user-guide/services.md
index d9c91c20756..bf15c602a54 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/services.md
+++ b/docs/user-guide/services.md
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ For example, the Service "redis-master" which exposes TCP port 6379 and has been
 allocated cluster IP address 10.0.0.11 produces the following environment
 variables:
 
-```
+```bash
 REDIS_MASTER_SERVICE_HOST=10.0.0.11
 REDIS_MASTER_SERVICE_PORT=6379
 REDIS_MASTER_PORT=tcp://10.0.0.11:6379