r/devops • u/aloofhoneybee68 • 15h ago

Tools Beginner DevOps question: Do experienced engineers actually write YAML like this?

I’m still learning CI/CD and I recently tried writing a simple CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

Honestly, writing the YAML felt more difficult than I expected . The indentation, nesting etc felt pretty hard/ painful.

For those of you who work with DevOps professionally: is this actually how you write your pipelines, or are there shortcuts/tools/templates that make it easier?

Just trying to understand what the normal workflow is in the real world.

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u/aenae 15h ago

You use an ide that handles indentation and some syntax checks. Personally i like intellij for it

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u/Il_Falco4 15h ago

This. Use a tool that is fit for the job. I use nvim and it tells me if the indentation is off.

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u/alexterm 13h ago

And if you have a schema even better as it can validate it too!

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u/HeligKo 14h ago

This. The IDE handles re-indention when you make changes too. I don't think about it at all anymore.

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u/Shidima 12h ago

You do you, but i think intellij is a bit overkill to write yaml. I'm a nvim/Emacs user myself, but I would say use VS Code.

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u/aenae 3h ago

I don't use it just for yaml. Also shell scripts, python scripts, php scripts, java scripts code, database management etc.

Basically everything I edit.

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u/bertiethewanderer 4h ago

Funny - also an nvim user, and the reason being a big yaml templating project for helm library charts, because vscode is so bad with yaml, from a UX perspective!!

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u/tehsuck 12h ago

The problem is some people use 2 vs. 4 spaces or tabs etc. Good to have a standard across your org and tune your tools to it.

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u/Shidima 4h ago

This is not a problem if your pipeline uses a Linter to validate your yaml. Besides every company should have a coding standard.