Ansible is a whole programming platform that is based on YAML. We write thousands of lines in it at Red Hat. Ansible tells you immediately where you have synt

Ansible is a whole programming platform that is based on YAML. We write thousands of lines in it at Red Hat. Ansible tells you immediately where you have syntax errors and it is much easier to read and write than JSON. But for config, it is usually overkill. If ConfigParser isn't working for your config job you should try to see what it is you're doing that requires such complex config (which again is all about doing the simplest approach possible).