Can anyone explain what this means (|-) in a Kubernetes yaml

Question

This is a yaml of a config map I came across ?

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: foobar
  namespace: ksys
data:
  cloud-config: |-
    address: "cloud-provider-service:8085"

Can anyone tell me what |- means here ? Any link that would give me more info ? Is this yaml specific or Kubernetes specific ?

Does this answer your question? [What is the difference between '>-' and '|-' in yaml?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72082343/what-is-the-difference-between-and-in-yaml) — Turing85, Jul 09 '23 at 19:35
Oh you mean execpt for the fact that it is in the title, and the 1st answer expalins `|`, `>`, `|-`, `>-` and the differences between them? — Turing85, Jul 09 '23 at 19:43
https://yaml-multiline.info/ also provides a nice interactive interfact to help you understand this — Blender Fox, Jul 10 '23 at 08:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '23 at 20:30

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| will indicate this block contains newlines and - indicates strip away the last newline of this block. In simple terms, |- will let your lines in the block be separated by newline and strip the newline at the end of the block or cloud-config.

answered Jul 09 '23 at 20:30

Raihan Khan

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Can anyone explain what this means (|-) in a Kubernetes yaml

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