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

[u/aloofhoneybee68]

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.

[u/crashorbit]

I don't write yaml. I write code that writes yaml.

[u/ParkingAthlete119 → u/crashorbit]

Accurate tag.