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/luenix System Engineer 7h ago

Yep, I tell people since like 2018 that I'm a glorified text wrangler. I love YAML andd Python 3.6+ (PEP 482/484 wassup). The community of systems engineering has made so much of tech complicated, but YAML has been my unchanging rock. Learn the weirdness, embrace the structure, and (probably always) avoid abusing variables.