YAML

Setting up a new repository for YAML linting today I was running in a bit of an issue with yamllint. I was using a YAML list to specify ingores, as mentioned in the documentation: ignore: - "*.dont-lint-me.yaml" - "/bin/" - "!/bin/*.lint-me-anyway.yaml" This however did not work with the above mentioned error message. After a lot of debugging I found that they released a new version recently which introduced this feature. [Read More]

When adding yamllint to an existing project it can be hard to fix all the errors at once.

I wrote a simple script to create a rules block that simply ignores all rules that currently trigger for a file. This works by generating a rules block ignoring paths.

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In theory Ansible should be declarative and have full control over the systems we touch with it. In practice, this is unfortunately not always the case. This combination of tasks loads a given yaml file from the remote host, combines a “overwrite dict” onto it, and writes the file back to disk. - name: Load yaml file contents as fact ansible.builtin.slurp: src: /etc/some-file.yaml register: yaml_file - name: Parse yaml file contents ansible. [Read More]