What is a dictionary and why is it heavily used in DevOps?

A Dictionary stores data in key-value pairs. Since most cloud infrastructure APIs (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes) return responses in JSON format, Python dictionaries are the native structure used to parse, manipulate, and generate configuration parameters.

server = {
    "name": "web-server",
    "ip": "10.0.0.1"
}
print(server["ip"])