Learn basic & advance topics, data types, syntaxes, key features, and capabilities of YAML along with use cases.
- What is YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) and introduction to it
- How YAML is different from XML (Extensible markup language) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
- How YAML is similar inline style to JSON (is a superset of JSON)
- Understand how easy and simple to represent complex mapping inside YAML
- YAML use cases and why it is being used heavily inside Configurations management
- Thumb rules that needs to be followed in writing a valid YAML file
- Scalars inside YAML and how they represent a single stored value
- YAML support to Strings, Integer, Float, Date, Timestamp, Boolean, Null etc.
- How to write multiple lines of String using folded style and literal style inside YAML
- How YAML supports comments inside it and how to write them with the help of #
- YAML support to implicit and explicit typing
- How to write different types of date formats using !!timestamp data tag
- What are Sequences inside YAML and how to write it using Block style and flow style
- What are Dictionaries inside YAML and how to write them to represent related object details like Application, Person, Vehicle etc.
- What is the common structure inside YAML document
- How to write complex keys inside YAML using ?
- What are Anchors & Alias inside YAML. How to write them using & and *
- What is overriding/merging inside YAML and how to use inside Anchors and Alias using <<:
- How YAML supports multi-documents and how to write them using --- & ...
- How to validate YAML files using command line tools and yamllint which is a python package
- How to define custom configurations inside yamllint
- How to validate YAML files and convert them into JSON using online websites
- YAML real examples inside AWS Cloud Formation, Docker Compose and Kubernetes
- Basic understanding on XML and JSON
- Interest to learn and explore YAML
- YAML Official Website - https://yaml.org/
- JSON to YAML Website - http://www.json2yaml.com/
- YAML Parser Website - http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/
- YAML lint Website - https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/