I'm more than half the time figuring out the environment. Just as you learn a new language by doing the exercises, I'm learning a bunch of stuff while I try to port our iptables semantics o firewalld: [a] gitlab CI/CD instead of Jenkins [b] getting firewalld (requires systemd) running in a container [c] the ansible firewalld module doesn't support --direct required for destination filtering [d] inventing a test suite for firewall rules, since the prebuilt I've found would involve weeks of yak shaving to get operating. So I'm simultaneously learning about four environments/languages at once - and this is typical for the kind of project I get assigned. There's a *lot* of exploratory coding happening. I didn't choose this stuff - it's part of the new requirements. I try for simple first, and often the tools don't support simple.