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YAML Templating Tool (ytt)

2 posts · Mar 2019

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ytt is a YAML templating tool that understands YAML structure, using comments for annotation. It supports declarative and imperative operations via Starlark, modularization of configurations, data injection, and data validation. It offers syntactic sugar for conditionals, loops, and functions, and provides an 'overlay' feature for configuration management. ytt aims to simplify configuration and deployment on Kubernetes and other platforms.

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  1. A new take on YAML templating for configuration filesThis post introduces ytt v0.1.0, a new YAML templating tool that is structure-aware, unlike text-based templating tools like Helm. It supports declarative and imperative operations using Starlark, allows modularization of configurations, data injection, and data validation. The post provides examples comparing ytt to Helm's templating for Kubernetes Ingress YAML and helper functions, highlighting ytt's advantages in clarity and structure awareness.