ng-to-yaml">Translating to YAML</h2><p>There’s an implicit mapping from protobuf to YAML using <a href="https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json">protobuf’s mapping to JSON</a>. Below are a few examples showing common mappings you’ll encounter writing configuration in Istio.</p><p><strong>Important things to note:</strong></p><ul><li>YAML fields are implicitly strings</li><li>Proto <code>repeated</code> fields map to YAML lists; each element in a YAML list is prefixed by a dash 