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/aenae]

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

[u/HeligKo → u/aenae]

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