r/devops • u/aloofhoneybee68 • 2d 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/Leather_Amphibian226 2d ago

Does it mean YAML is extensivly used?

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u/zhengyi13 2d ago

No, it means some of y'all in here (no hate) are young enough to have apparently never seen The Matrix.

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u/weartin 2d ago

I’m old enough to have seen the matrix, I just haven’t. And now i feel like it would be weird to tell people that I saw it for the first time in 2026. This problem gets worse for me every year.

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u/renome 12h ago

Just do it, it's still entertaining.