Minify YAML Online — Free YAML Compressor
Minify YAML configs instantly — K8s, CI/CD and Docker Compose files. Choose comment preservation or parse-based tight output.
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YAML Minification
Minify YAML online.
Features
Compress configs with optional comment handling.
Minify YAML
Compress configs with optional comment handling.
Basic example
Input YAML
# Production ConfigMap for the app
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap # resource type
metadata:
name: app-config # deployment name
data:
key: value # default setting
Minified YAML
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: app-config
data:
key: value
Options
Remove Comments
When true, parse+dump removes # comments. When false, whitespace-only minify preserves # lines.
Parse path drops comments; whitespace path keeps them
YAML conversion helpers
Use JSON → YAML, YAML → JSON, YAML → XML or YAML → CSV for format conversion.
FAQ — Minify YAML
Minification
Are # comments preserved?
Only when removeComments is false (whitespace path). Parse-based minify removes them.
Beautify YAML?
See YAML beautifier — comments cannot survive parse.
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