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Re:That's a Lot of YAML by vrighter on Monday April 14, 2025 @08:41AM (#43680661)
python (as much as I personally dislike the language itself) has clean syntax for sets, dicts and arrays. Which are the data structures you use in a playbook. Ansible as python instead of yaml can be made to look very similar to current playbooks. But saner. And easier to script.
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Re:That's a Lot of YAML by mdaniel on Monday April 14, 2025 @11:25AM (#43682339)
Oh, sorry I misunderstood, then. So, closer to the troposphere version of using python to generate json to feed into ansible?
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Re:That's a Lot of YAML by vrighter on Sunday April 20, 2025 @03:44AM (#43742210)
ansible is already written in python. Just eliminate the json/yaml and let us use it from python directly.
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