Separate generated content from maintained content. Works for me. But on the specifics here, from a very python POV. Strict YAML is easier to maintain than jso

Separate generated content from maintained content. Works for me. But on the specifics here, from a very python POV. Strict YAML is easier to maintain than json if you have deeper than one or maybe two levels of nesting, multiline strings, or comments. So, I build my config systems to _generate_ YAML instead of “templating YAML.” PyYAML extensions and ruamel.yaml exist—Though kind of out of date, and more new projects are using TOML. (From project description: “ruamel.yaml is a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip comment preservation”) Confession: but yeah, not when I use ansible. Ansible double-dog-dares you to “jinja2 all the things” without much in the way of structured semantics.