[anonacct37]

text/template is probably ok... For some version of text. ditto with jinja and most templating languages. The cardinal sin of DevOps is using text macros to produce structured data. It only exists because unfortunately there is no other lowest common denominator for every config file syntax.

[morelisp]

Sure and that forgives its use in maybe, like, Salt and Ansible. Not in Kubernetes where everything is structured in the same way, even with API-available schemas, to begin with.