On: How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)

[geerlingguy]

Ansible uses Jinja2 to output templates in whatever format is preferred by the thing being configured. I haven't personally seen Ansible used to output YAML... But people will do anything :-P

Ansible does use YAML as a configuration language though—something for which it's perfectly suited.

[spdionis → geerlingguy]

Well, some frameworks use yaml for config files and you might use ansible to write those.

That said the templating is usually trivial, just maybe write some string values.

[cytzol → spdionis]

I’ve done it. It’s painful enough that it teaches you “don’t do this!”. For example, you need to escape `{{ item }}` as `{{ "{{" }} item {{ "}}" }}`!