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by arvinsim
2694 days ago
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> My belief is that we've been slowly building up to using general purpose languages, one small step at a time, throughout the infrastructure as code, DevOps, and SRE journeys this past 10 years. INI files, XML, JSON, and YAML aren't sufficiently expressive -- lacking for loops, conditionals, variable references, and any sort of abstraction -- so, of course, we add templates to it. But as the author (IMHO rightfully) points out, we just end up with a funky, poor approximation of a language. This is the why I prefer to use a JS file for configuration instead of native JSON or YAML file if those options are available. |
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