I’ve reached for some complex awk when I am looking to parse snippets of code where breaking out a full language parser would have been too much.

One example is parsing statements from a Dockerfile but only within certain stages of the image. So I reach for regex range in awk and I can make something that works everywhere.

Of course I probably could have done the same thing in python by controlling the beginning and end via variables, but I like awk sometimes.

The gophers are https://podman.io/ which builds and runs containers. My guess is they are building the same application in multiple distros for their one application

Like

my-app-nix my-app-fedora my-app-alpine

It’s a common practice so users can choose the distro they prefer when launching your container in their stack.

Add on a CI system (not Jenkins) and you got yaml controlling your yaml!

Be me, the only one who knows how to read the ancient text of Jenkins log.

Now you’re doing pipelines forever. 😞

You can use kubernetes on any OCI container deployment.

So if you don’t want/need to install the docker program, you can go with containerd.