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/opt/chainguard/kapitan/bin/yamllint

Generic templated configuration management for Kubernetes, Terraform and other things, driven by a hierarchical reclass inventory and Jsonnet, Jinja2, Kadet, Helm and other input engines

From kapitan 0.36.3-r2 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running yamllint --help (exit 0). permalink

usage: yamllint [-h] [-] [-c CONFIG_FILE | -d CONFIG_DATA] [--list-files]
                [-f {parsable,standard,colored,github,auto}] [-s] [--no-warnings] [-v]
                [FILE_OR_DIR ...]

A linter for YAML files. yamllint does not only check for syntax validity, but for weirdnesses
like key repetition and cosmetic problems such as lines length, trailing spaces, indentation, etc.

positional arguments:
  FILE_OR_DIR           files to check

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -                     read from standard input
  -c, --config-file CONFIG_FILE
                        path to a custom configuration
  -d, --config-data CONFIG_DATA
                        custom configuration (as YAML source)
  --list-files          list files to lint and exit
  -f, --format {parsable,standard,colored,github,auto}
                        format for parsing output
  -s, --strict          return non-zero exit code on warnings as well as errors
  --no-warnings         output only error level problems
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit
Options (8)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpshow this help message and exithelp
-c, --config-file CONFIG_FILEpath to a custom configurationhelp
-d, --config-data CONFIG_DATAcustom configuration (as YAML source)help
--list-fileslist files to lint and exithelp
-f, --format parsableformat for parsing outputhelp
-s, --strictreturn non-zero exit code on warnings as well as errorshelp
--no-warningsoutput only error level problemshelp
-v, --versionshow program's version number and exithelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.