Re: [Yaml-core] limitation of anchor and alias?

[Carsten B. <ca...@tz...>]

On 23. Mar 2021, at 16:02, Tom Corcoran <bo...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> I have since learned that YAML is a dead language, not maintained for over 10 years, which seem strange considering how much it's used these days.

It would be a dead language if it weren’t spoken.
But as you notice, it is spoken a lot.

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 21:50, Tom Corcoran <bo...@gm... <mailto:bo...@gm...>> wrote:
> I have an anchor as follows:
> 
> helm-install
>       docker-flags: &my_docker_flags
>         - "--network host"
>         - "--env KUBECONFIG=/tmp/admin.conf"
>         - "--env HOME=${env.HOME}"
>         - "--volume ${env.KUBECONFIG}:/tmp/admin.conf:ro"
>         - "--volume ${env.PWD}:${env.PWD}"
>         - "--volume ${env.HOME}/.helm:${env.HOME}/.helm"
>         - "--volume ${var.docker_config_basepath}:${var.docker_config_basepath}"
> 
> later I want to do:
> 
>       docker-flags:
>         <<: *d my_docker_flags 
>         - "--env K8_NAMESPACE=${env.K8_NAMESPACE}"
> 
> But, the last line is flagged as bad indentation of a mapping entry YAML

What are you trying to do? I can’t parse the above.

Grüße, Carsten