Rising Infrastructure Quality with YAML & JSON Schemas

Rising Infrastructure Quality with YAML & JSON Schemas If you work in operations, DevOps, or platform engineering, you’re probably drowning in YAML files. Kubernetes manifests, Ansible playbooks, GitLab CI configurations, Helm charts—the list goes on. These YAML files control everything from cluster management and configuration to CI/CD pipelines and application deployments. But here’s the problem: YAML is notoriously forgiving. A typo, a missing field, or an incorrect indentation might not show up until you try to apply that configuration—and by then, it’s often too late. This is where JSON schemas come in, even though you’re working with YAML. ...

November 18, 2025 · 7 min · Kewin Rémy