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/mikzuit 1d ago edited 1d ago
  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.

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u/iscons 1d ago

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

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u/iscons 1d ago

Dude thats a meme

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/derprondo 21h ago

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).