docs(blog): deep dive into the OmegaConf inventory backend - #1543
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What
A new blog post,
docs/pages/blog/posts/omegaconf-backend-deep-dive.md, walking through the OmegaConf inventory backend: what it gives us over reclass, how interpolation and deferred evaluation work, and the literal${escape:...}syntax from #1445.Why
The OmegaConf backend has grown some genuinely useful features that are easy to miss if you only know reclass — dot-notation interpolation,
oc.select/oc.envdefaults, conditional resolvers, deferred\${...}evaluation, and custom Python resolvers. The literal-vs-deferred escape distinction in particular trips people up constantly, and #1445 plus the doc clarifications in #1521 finally made it unambiguous. I wanted one practical, opinionated post that ties it together so people know when reaching for the backend is worth it.Approach
First person, practical, in the established blog voice. Every flag, YAML snippet, and behaviour claim is grounded in the existing docs and source — I deliberately did not invent anything:
--migratemigration table fromdocs/pages/inventory/omegaconf.md..yamlclass support framed against fix(omegaconf): resolve --migrate flag and .yaml class support #1483.${escape:...}literal behaviour, including the key-collision case and the__KAPITAN_LITERAL__marker mechanism, taken straight fromkapitan/inventory/backends/omegaconf/resolvers.pyand the feat: add literal resolver to emit backslash dollar syntax in OmegaConf #1445 description.tests/test_resources/omegaconf/inventory/classes/components/test-resolvers.yml.!!! noteadmonition spells out the\${...}(deferred) vs${escape:...}(literal) difference, since that is the single most common point of confusion.Verification