Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a rich set of operators and functions for advanced usage. In this article, I will illustrate how to update deeply nested elements in yaml. This can be done for both known paths as well as arbitrarily deep paths. Sample yaml We will use the following yaml files to … yq: updating deeply nested elements
Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a full-featured validation command that is very detailed in its reporting, but the yaml specification itself is very lenient, which means yq may accept scenarios you did not expect (e.g. an empty file). yq -v file.yaml >/dev/null ; echo “final result = $?” Luckily, the yq tips-and-tricks section … yq: validate yaml syntax
Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a rich set of operators and functions for advanced usage. In this article, I will illustrate how to update a deeply nested element in yaml. Install yq Here are the steps for installing the latest yq on Snap enabled systems like Ubuntu/Debian. See the notes at bottom if … yq: update deeply nested elements in yaml
Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a rich set of operators and functions for advanced usage. In this article, I will illustrate how to take a block of yaml from one file to populate a specific location in another. Install yq Here are the steps for installing the latest yq on Snap enabled systems … yq: replace section of one yaml file with content section of another
If you have a Kubernetes yaml manifest that contains multiple documents, targeting a single document for modification while still outputting the other documents untouched can be a challenge. As an example, consider the simple example below were you have a single yaml file that contains: a Namespace, Deployment, and DaemonSet. And we want to add … Kubernetes: targeting the addition of array items to a multi-document yaml manifest
Most of the modern cloud platforms and utilities have us manipulate either JSON or YAML configuration files. And when you start dealing with real world scenarios with hundreds of lines of embedded data structures it is too difficult and error-prone to manually inspect indentation levels to determine the exact dotted or json path to an … Python: converting JSON to dot notation for easier path determination