Python Libraries for DevOps

Reading JSON and YAML in Python:

• DevOps Engineers need to parse various file formats, including txt, json, and yaml.

• Python offers essential libraries for DevOps tasks, such as os, sys, json, and yaml.

• Proficiency in these libraries allows efficient handling and manipulation of different file types.

• Navigating and extracting data from diverse file formats enhances a DevOps Engineer's effectiveness.

Tasks:

1. Create a Dictionary in Python and write it to a json File.

1. Read a json file services.json kept in this folder and print the service names of every cloud service provider.

    output
   
    aws : ec2
    azure : VM
    gcp : compute engine
   

   Answer:

   

   1. Read YAML file using python, file services.yaml and read the contents to convert yaml to json

Answer: The detailed steps to complete task3 are as follows.

1. Install prerequisites

• Ensure Python 3 is installed

• Install PyYAML module

pip install pyyaml

2. Create sample YAML file

• In your code folder, create a file called services.yaml

• Add YAML content like:

  

3. Create python file & add below parts of code

• Imports yaml and json modules

• Loads data.yaml into yaml_data

• Converts yaml_data to JSON string json_data

• Writes json_data to new file data.json

• Prints confirmation message

Output - The above code will print:

The services.json files contains:

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