Chapter 8: Practicing the Basics – Declarative Language File Building

Before getting into the actual work of implementing a GitOps practice or tool, it is important to know about how a declarative file is built, structural syntax, different language types, and templatizing capabilities. Once the basics are understood, a team can build upon a standard that will be shared across a company.

An important thing to understand about choosing a declarative language to standardize on is that a company or team doesn't have to standardize on one language. Some tools have the ability to leverage multiple declarative language types, and if a solution is chosen that only supports one declarative language type, then there are tools that exist that can help ...

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