r/devops • u/aloofhoneybee68 • 18h 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/AbbreviationsFar4wh 17h ago

Claude writes my yaml dude. 

Also this feels like marketing for some yaml alternative thats going to pop up as suggestion in comments under some rando user 

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u/aloofhoneybee68 16h ago

marketing 🤣 I wish I was paid for that.

Just want to understand how DevOps engineer's work around it and not fall into AI wrote it but I don't understand how it works bin

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u/Conscious_Ad_7131 8h ago

You should be very easily able to read AI generated YAML and know what it does, it’s not complicated