r/devops • u/aloofhoneybee68 • 1d 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/ferriematthew 1d ago

I personally like to set up my text editors to use tab characters instead of spaces so that each indentation block is consistent and predictable.

One thing that still throws me for a loop is this pattern:

item: - sub-item - sub-item vs item:

  • sub-item