The statement is FALSE . Official OpenStack Heat documentation says that when the Orchestration service was originally introduced, it worked with AWS CloudFormation templates , which are in JSON format. It then states that Heat also runs HOT templates written in YAML . This directly disproves the claim that both HOT and CFN templates support YAML in the same native sense.
OpenStack Heat documentation also explains that HOT was introduced to replace the Heat CloudFormation-compatible format (CFN) as the native format supported by Heat over time. That means HOT, not CFN, is the format more suitable for OpenStack-native deployments. The documentation further notes that YAML is easier to write, parse, and maintain, which is one reason HOT became the preferred OpenStack format.
Although internal parsing code shows the API can accept a JSON- or YAML-formatted document in some contexts, the OpenStack-native orchestration model clearly favors HOT and identifies CFN as the older CloudFormation-compatible format. So the combined statement is incorrect, and the correct answer is B (FALSE) .
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