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Iain Hallam
Asked: 2015-11-28 10:06:31 +0800 CST

Why do some r10k configuration files start their YAML lines with :?

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I'm looking at setting up r10k for Puppet deployment, and I have various example r10k.yaml configuration files, but some seem to use an extra : at the start of many lines, for instance, at http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/r10k/1.1.4:

---
:cachedir: '/var/cache/r10k'

However, at https://github.com/puppetlabs/r10k/blob/master/r10k.yaml.example:

---
cachedir: '/var/cache/r10k'

What's the difference, and why would I use one of the other?

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  1. Best Answer

    It is how foreman do there variable

    :cachedir: '/var/cache/r10k'

    will be read as 

    {
  ":cachedir": "/var/cache/r10k"
}

    You can test your syntax here : http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/

    foreman var : http://www.theforeman.org/manuals/1.5/index.html#3.5.2ConfigurationOptions

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