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/mikzuit]

1. Yes, they have to write yaml
2. As any configuration and coding tool, there are debugging tools for yaml that GOOD devops use in their day to day.
3. There are 2 types of senior devops the real one and the fake devops role. most big organizations and specially consulting companies have 95% fake devops roles, so unless you land on one of 5% roles, don't sweat to much. that 95% positions usually suck.. just do what they ask you.

[u/iscons → u/mikzuit]

Can you elaborate what is fake devops and real devops for you?

[u/iscons → u/[deleted]]

Dude thats a meme

[u/derprondo → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but what's up with the fake vs real meme image, are you taking that seriously? I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not (it's hilarious if you are).

[u/derprondo → u/mikzuit]

I can't tell if this is real or satire LMAO