Aerospike's configuration format can be difficult to learn and lacks the ecosystem of more standard formats, but using the asconfig tool in Aerospike tools 8.3.0 allows developers to write configurations in a standard YAML format with schema validation and IDE suggestions. By setting up an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Aerospike configuration suggestions and installing the Red Hat YAML VS Code extension, developers can use code completion and error highlighting features to write Aerospike configurations more efficiently. The asconfig tool also enables converting existing Aerospike configurations to YAML format, making it easier to adopt this standard format. Additionally, launching an Aerospike cluster in Docker using a YAML configuration is straightforward with the asconfig tool, allowing developers to easily deploy and manage their Aerospike nodes.