Add to bashrc

alias yaml2json="ruby -ryaml -rjson -e 'puts JSON.pretty_generate(YAML.load(ARGF))'"
alias json2yaml="ruby -ryaml -rjson -e 'puts YAML.dump(JSON.parse(STDIN.read))'"

WIIG4

take a horrible json (such as packer template), convert it to yaml, edit it (vi, sed, awk) and convert back

side dish

Pipe the json through jq; the default is a colorized output making it easier to examine