Lots more updates

Also begin adding rust building capabilities
to be able to write rust binaries for some commands.

rust/lib/common/src/yaml.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+use anyhow::Context;
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+pub fn string(str: &str) -> String {
+    serde_yml::to_string(str).expect("Should be able to encode string")
+}
+
+pub fn to_string<T: ?Sized + Serialize>(value: &T) -> anyhow::Result<String> {
+    serde_yml::to_string(value).context("Could not serialize to yaml")
+}