Part of a hobby of mine is running a home lab and using on Proxmox VE to do the virtualization. Since I work in the space I’m slowly trying to build tooling around Proxmox that will let me use the home lab full time for work. Usually my work involves building Kubernetes management tooling, you can imagine waiting for public cloud APIs all day can take away hours of your day at cost to your employer for both your time and the compute resources.

I recently had to spend some time to learn Cue and felt the examples/tutorials were a bit lacking and the paradigm shift to the entire language sort of messed with my head and some things Cue does were a bit foreign to me. To get started, note that the two places I spent all of my time to get this information came from their main docs and a community Cuetorials site. This will be a tutorial on how you can use Cue to generate two different YAML documents using Cue all starting with Go types to…