I complained about cfengine's syntax in a blog post a while ago[1]; someone mentioned that a patch for YAML-based cfengine manifests had been proposed. I haven't seen anything since, but then ... well I don't follow the cfengine news too closely.
It largely seems to be that a lot of these systems take their directives as nestable key-value pairs, so I think YAML is a good fit.
Amusingly, the first link someone posted on my blog post was to Salt. I didn't dig too deep at the time as it appeared to be more at the REF end of the spectrum to me.
It largely seems to be that a lot of these systems take their directives as nestable key-value pairs, so I think YAML is a good fit.
Amusingly, the first link someone posted on my blog post was to Salt. I didn't dig too deep at the time as it appeared to be more at the REF end of the spectrum to me.
[1] http://chester.id.au/2012/06/27/a-not-sobrief-aside-on-reign...