Day 15: Python Libraries for DevOps

Today, let’s dive into a crucial aspect of being a DevOps Engineer -> reading JSON and YAML in Python.

Reading JSON and YAML in Python

As a DevOps Engineer, you should be able to parse files, be it txt, json, yaml, etc

Libraries for DevOps in Python

Python has numerous libraries like os, sys, json, yaml etc that a DevOps Engineer uses in day to day tasks.

Tasks:

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

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

Now, we’ll read a JSON file, “services.json,” and extract the service names of each cloud service provider. The content of “services.json” is shown below:

Output:

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

Here you can see the json file