Are we all YAML engineers now?

Ignite talk given at Config Management Camp 2018.
Makes little sense on its own.

Transcript

1. --- name: 'bob walker' title: 'Head of Web Operations' employer: 'Government Digital Service' twitter: '@rjw1' pronouns: 'he/him or they/them' slide: 1
2. --- question: 'Are we all YAML engineers now'
3. GDS --- slide: 3 text: 'in the beginning' markups: - 'GML' - 'SGML' - 'XML'
4. GDS --- slide: 4 YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language URL: http://yaml.org/ What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.
5. GDS --- slide: 5 uses: - "configuration" - "object persistence" - "internet messaging" - "data serialization"
6. GDS --- slide: 6 question: "What about JSON?"
7. GDS --- slide: 7 question: "What about XML?"
8. GDS --- slide: 8 question: "How did this journey start?"
9. GDS --- slide: 9 meta: "Talk for another 20 seconds"
10. GDS --- slide: 11 meta: "hopefully bob is still talking"
11. GDS --- slide: 11 meta: "will bob ever stop talking"
12. GDS --- slide: 12 things: - kubernetes - docker compose - cloudfoundry - concourse - .travis.yml - Ansible
13. --- slide: 14 kubernetes: "lots of YAML" GDS
14. GDS --- slide: 14 kubernetes: "YAML generating YAML"
15. GDS --- slide: 15 Docker Compose: "At least it's not a shell script"
16. GDS --- slide: 16 SafeYAML: "https://github.com/imbal/safeyaml"
17. GDS --- slide: 17 quote: I think I just coined the phrase "YAML farmer" authour: Gareth Rushgrove url: https://twitter.com/garethr/status/9598222141021224 96
18. --- question: 'Are we all YAML engineers now'
19. --- question: 'Are we all ML engineers now' answer: 'Yes'
20. --- text: 'Thanks!' hiring: true name: 'bob walker' twitter: @rjw1 slide: 20