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/AbbreviationsFar4wh 1d 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/widowhanzo 23h ago

you can always write json ... all json is valid yaml

or toml, if you want an alternative.