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sincerely, why do this in the first place?

• dhosek 6y ago
  We were targetting configurations of Concourse for deploying software. We would have to do essentially the same deployment to multiple environments (dev, qa, staging, performance, prod) and Concourse doesn't provide a sufficiently rich configuration in its use of yaml. For a single app cut and paste is acceptable but once you get into multiple microservices, it becomes more efficient to do it this way.
  • q3k 6y ago
    Have you looked into Jsonnet/CUE/Dhall? They attempt to solve this problem, but give you an actual programming language instead. I've been using Jsonnet to successfully escape the 'yaml-templating-yaml' hell for years now. But yeah, concourse configuration files are probably the worst YAML verbosity offenders, even worse than k8s manifests.