Data serialization languages, like Extensible Markup Language and YAML Ain't Markup Language, are typically found in infrastructure-as-code management software. Understand the differences and use ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

Each language uses a discrete set of rules and format instructions. Straying from rules and formats can lead to configuration problems. This article explores the top text editors for managing ...

YAML is a human-readable configuration file format that is flexible and easy to understand, but fraught with unexpected pitfalls. Here’s how to dodge its most precarious issues. The YAML (“YAML Ain’t ...

One often hears the "infrastructure as code" refrain when configuration-management systems are discussed. Normally, though, that phrase doesn't bring into mind an image of infrastructure as Haskell ...

TOML format files consist of key-value pairs, where keys are strings and values can be one of a number of types. In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Microsoft Windows .ini file format, but with ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...