DevOps

YAML - YAML Ain’t Markup Language

YAML is human readable data serialization language that is used for writing configuration files. YAML file use a .yml or .yaml extenstion.

Eg.

name: Krishna
title: Software Engineer
address:
    city: kolkata
    country: India

Data serialization

The process of converting an object into a stream of bytes to make it easier to save or transmit.

Properties

• Similar to XML and JSON
• Only Store data (Not command)
• Strict syntax - Indentation
• Store data in key-value paire

Advantages

• Simple & easy to read
• Easily convertable to JSON and XML
• Most language use YAML
• More powerfull when representing complex data

YAML Tools

• yamllint - Validate the YAML file.
• codebeautify - Coverrt YAML to JSON, XML and CSV.

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