YAML Zero to Master

Learn basic & advance topics, data types, syntaxes, key features, and capabilities of YAML along with use cases.

What you'll learn
What is YAML and why it is being used heavily inside Configuration management
How YAML is different from XML and JSON
YAML Use Cases
YAML Basic Concepts that covers Scalars, Strings, Sequences, Dictionaries, Explicit Typing
How to write comments inside YAML file
YAML advance concepts that covers Anchors, Alias, Overriding, Multi documents support, Writing Complex keys
Validating YAML files using yamlint and online websites
YAML real examples inside AWS Cloud Formation, Docker Compose and Kubernetes

Description
'YAML Zero to Master' course will help in understanding about YAML format, syntax and how to build, validate YAML files. By the end of this course, students will understand all the below topics,

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

The pre-requisite for the course is basic knowledge of XML, JSON and interest to learn.

Who this course is for:
Students, Developers, Architects who are looking to learn YAML
Who does lot of DevOps work by using YAML as a format to do configurations