YAML
YAML syntax, data types, anchors, multi-line strings, and common config file patterns.
Syntax
2 topics
Basic Types
# Strings
name: Alice
quoted: "Hello, World!"
multiline: |
Line one
Line two
folded: >
This is a long line that
gets folded into one.
# Numbers & booleans
age: 30
price: 9.99
enabled: true
disabled: false
not_set: null
# Lists
fruits:
- apple
- banana
- cherry
inline: [1, 2, 3]
# Maps
address:
street: 123 Main St
city: Springfield
inline_map: {a: 1, b: 2}⚠️ Indentation must be spaces, never tabs
💡 | preserves newlines, > folds them into spaces
Anchors & Aliases
# Define anchor
defaults: &defaults
timeout: 30
retries: 3
log_level: info
# Reuse with alias
production:
<<: *defaults # Merge defaults
log_level: warn # Override one field
replicas: 5
staging:
<<: *defaults
replicas: 1
# Multiple environment example
x-common: &common
image: my-app:latest
restart: unless-stopped
services:
web:
<<: *common
ports: ['80:8080']
worker:
<<: *common
command: worker⚡ Anchors & aliases DRY up Docker Compose and CI config files
Docker Compose Patterns
1 topic
Multi-Service Config
services:
app:
build: .
ports:
- "3000:3000"
environment:
DATABASE_URL: postgres://db:5432/app
REDIS_URL: redis://cache:6379
depends_on:
db:
condition: service_healthy
volumes:
- ./src:/app/src # Dev hot-reload
db:
image: postgres:16-alpine
volumes:
- pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
POSTGRES_DB: app
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: secret
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "pg_isready", "-U", "postgres"]
interval: 5s
retries: 5
cache:
image: redis:7-alpine
volumes:
pgdata:💡 condition: service_healthy waits for real readiness, not just container start
⚡ version: key is deprecated in Compose v2 — omit it entirely
CI/CD YAML
1 topic
GitHub Actions Workflow
name: CI/CD
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
branches: [main]
jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: '20'
cache: 'npm' # Caches node_modules
- run: npm ci
- run: npm test
deploy:
needs: test # Only runs if test passes
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
environment: production
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- run: ./deploy.sh
env:
API_KEY: ${{ secrets.API_KEY }}💡 needs: test ensures deploy only runs after tests pass on the same commit
⚡ cache: 'npm' dramatically speeds up repeated CI runs by caching node_modules
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