feat: make vals able to eval dictionaries #530
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We've some use cases where we have plain dictionaries in yaml files and need to evaluate secret refs with vals. We've a workaround/hack to use yq to change this dictionaries into a format that vals likes and then back to it's origin after secrets are evaluated. But this is kinda hacky, thus this PR.
The yq hack (don't mind the extra quotings/escapes as this is part of a larger script):