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Etcha provides a great user experience for creating configurations.

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$ cat helloworld.jsonnet
local n = import '../lib/etcha/native.libsonnet';

{
  build: [
    {
      always: true,
      change: 'echo %s > /work/helloworld' % n.getEnv('HOSTNAME'),
      id: 'write a file',
      onChange: [
        'read file',
      ],
    },
    {
      change: 'cat /work/helloworld',
      id: 'read file',
      onChange: [
        'etcha:buildManifest',
      ],
    },
  ],
  buildExec: {
    command: '/bin/sh -c'
  },
}
$ etcha lint helloworld.jsonnet
ERROR shared/go/jsonnet/import.go:49
error importing jsonnet files: RUNTIME ERROR: couldn't open import "../lib/etcha/native.libsonnet": no match locally or in the Jsonnet library paths
        helloworld.jsonnet:1:11-49

Etcha makes writing configurations easier than ever before:

Configurations are written using Jsonnet, a formal configuration language. It’s easy to understand, and even easier to create functions, libraries, and more abstractions for your users.
Jsonnet has integrations with editors like VSCode for features like autocomplete and syntax checking.
Etcha can lint and test commands to ensure they function exactly as you expect.