noyaml
yj
| noyaml | yj | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 6 | |
| 479 | 990 | |
| 2.7% | 1.2% | |
| 4.4 | 3.6 | |
| 12 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| CSS | Go | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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noyaml
- YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)
- That's a Lot of YAML
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Plain Text Accounting (PTA)
> less special character noise
I hope you've at least once stumbled upon the existence of https://noyaml.com/ and/or, at the time, were familiar with the quirks regarding number interpretation.
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Kubernetes Through the Developer's Perspective
Most commonly written in YAML, these files are large and complex to read and understand. And being written in YAML comes with its challenges (and quirks) since it is an additional programming language that devs need to learn.
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JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data
YAML is kind of like C++:
> You like C++ because you're only using 20% of it. And that's fine, everyone only uses 20% of C++, the problem is that everyone uses a different 20% :)
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/10/17/the-c-bashing-seaso...
The YAML footguns are too numerous to reproduce here, so here are some sources:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a...
https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html
https://noyaml.com/
- Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
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YAML's homepage is displayed in YAML
The webpage documenting some of the sharp edges of yaml is also displayed as an editable yaml document
https://noyaml.com/
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stopDoingJson
It’s the least secure config format, even worse than XML IMO since it’s unsafe even with trusted inputs. https://noyaml.com/
yj
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That's a Lot of YAML
For anyone looking for such a script, there's some CLIs that make it easy. One is `yq -o props` [1], another way is to use `yq -j` or `yj` [2] to convert to JSON and pipe it to `gron` [3].
[1] https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
[2] https://github.com/sclevine/yj
[3] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
- Conversion of HCL to/from JSON
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Tombl – Easily query .toml files from bash
Also checkout yj[1] which can convert between various formats among toml->json
[1]: https://github.com/sclevine/yj
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What excites you about being a DevOps engineer?
json is just a subset of yaml. https://github.com/sclevine/yj
- Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files
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docker-compose.toml
This requires yj and obviously docker-compose to be on your $PATH. You can use yj to convert your docker-compose.yaml to TOML like this
What are some alternatives?
hjson - Hjson, a user interface for JSON
PyYAML
bcl - Basic Configuration Language
json2jsii - Generates jsii-compatible structs from JSON schemas
tombl - Easily query TOML files from bash