YAML sed

YAML sed helps you to modify yaml files from command line.

Installation

npm i -g ysed

To install npm see https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm.

Usage

ysed (<some_yaml_file.yaml>|<some_ysed_file.ysed>) [updates]

ysed reads the yaml file, applies specified updates and writes updated yaml into stdout.

This can be used with kubectl:

ysed <yaml> [updates] | kubectl apply -f -

Supported updates

Update specific path

some.path[index].to.element=new_value: If an element matches given path exactly in any YAML document in input file, value of that field will be updated to new_value.

Update an environment variable

env[ENV_VARIABLE_NAME]=new_value: Any environment variable in containers match ENV_VARIABLE_NAME, then it's value will be updated to new_value.

Update matching values

value[old_value]=new_value: Any value matching old_value will be updated to new_value.

Updates config

update_file.ysed: Each line in update_file will be processed like a command line update. If passed instead of yaml file as first parameter to ysed, then first line in ysed file is expected to be relative path to yaml template.

Example

file: my_yaml
for: demonstration
content:
  field1: value1
  field2: value2
  containers:
  - name: busybox1
    env:
    - name: VAR1
      value: value3
    - name: VAR2
      value: value4
---
file: doc2
for: demonstration
content:
  field3: value5
  field4: value6
  containers:
  - name: busybox2
    env:
    - name: VAR3
      value: value7
    - name: VAR4
      value: value8
    - name: VAR5
      value: value9

ysed demo.yaml content.containers[0].env[2].value=new_value1 env[VAR4]=new_value2 will print:

- file: my_yaml
  for: demonstration
  content:
    field1: value1
    field2: value2
    containers:
      - name: busybox1
        env:
          - name: VAR1
            value: value3
          - name: VAR2
            value: value4
- file: doc2
  for: demonstration
  content:
    field3: value5
    field4: value6
    containers:
      - name: busybox2
        env:
          - name: VAR3
            value: value7
          - name: VAR4
            value: new_value2
          - name: VAR5
            value: new_value1

Feature requests

If you've specific feature requests, send pull request in Github or message me.