As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

A 10 minute read covering some YAML edge-cases that you should have in mind when writing complex YAML files

  • Sickday@kbin.earth
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    10 months ago

    Interesting read. Wish I would’ve found it years ago when I started my first DevOps gig. The company used AWS and CloudFormation (YAML, not JSON) quite a bit along with Ansible. The things I saw in that hellscape were brutal.