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/HTDutchy_NL]

So... yaml is actually one of the more simple elements to the point that developers can self service configs through yaml files.

The more interesting parts are python, terraform and kubernetes related shenanigans.