Why Brigade Doesn't Do YAML

Brigade newcomers often ask me why Brigade doesn't use YAML. Coming from CircleCI, TravisCI, and Kubernetes itself, some developers expect that Brigade should be a "declarative" method of describing a sequence of steps to be run. This is not what Brigade is supposed to be. Brigade is a script execution environment. Brigade is shell scripting for Kubernetes.

This post explains the rationale of Brigade's scripting.

This is the first in a series about Brigade concepts. Current...