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There have been times I've wanted to templatize my configuration but I don't want to do it with text-based templates but templates within the configuration file

by epage 8y ago

There have been times I've wanted to templatize my configuration but I don't want to do it with text-based templates but templates within the configuration files syntax (be it yaml, toml, or something else). Not sure what this is called, I've been calling it "structural templating". So far the only things close to this are - Azure pipeline's syntax: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/templates?view=azure-devops https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/proc... - Something called Jasonette: https://docs.jasonette.com/templates/ https://docs.jasonette.com/templates/ - Something called Jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/ https://jsonnet.org/ Azure Pipeline's approach I think is closest to what I've been looking for. Anything else in this space?

Edmond 8y ago
we're working on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yepPOznakk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yepPOznakk http://codesolvent.com/config-node/ http://codesolvent.com/config-node/
wryun 8y ago
I prefer https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e Has the advantage/disadvantage that it's still valid json/yaml I wrote a scary command line wrapper for it: https://wryun.github.io/rjsone/ https://wryun.github.io/rjsone/ Has libs for Python, Go, and JS, and there's a bazel interface.
- igor47 8y ago
  plug for json-e i found it much less painful-looking than jsonnet
- epage 8y ago
  This looks really nice. I'll have to give this a try at some point to see how I feel about it vs Azure Pipelines. From my quick look, this looks more general purpose at the cost of more verbosity.