Restructuring a YAML or JSON File in VSCode

How to do tab and shift tab to move a block of code ?

Hey everyone! Last week, I had to restructure a massive Kubernetes .yml file for a Spinnaker pipeline. Imagine a YAML file with thousands of lines, where some parts were messy, and many were not properly aligned. If I tried to fix it line by line, I’d probably lose my sanity. 😵‍💫

But don’t worry—there’s a shortcut that can save the day! If you’re using VS Code (or similar editors), you can easily align and clean up your YAML file in just a few keystrokes. Here's how:

The Shortcut

Step-1: Highlight the messy lines.

Step-2: Use Shift + Tab to align to the left

or Use Tab to align to the right.

Before it was like so :(

As you see the Magic is working :)

Good luck and please lets share our knowledge with each others.

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