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djsumdog
I use this phrase all the time. It's a great way to describe technical debt:

"I don't know why we have that Mongo instance running out of those docker containers. It caches... ...something. It's pretty much just turtles all the way down."

sixhobbits
Haha me too. "Our logger failed silently" "Shouldn't that have been recorded somewhere?" "I guess it's turtles all the way down"
jgbond
Finally -- I'd been driving myself nuts for about two years trying to figure out the title to the Sturgill Simpson song "Turtles All the Way Down."
joneholland
I most recently used this phrase in reference to Hashicorps Vault product.

You put your secrets in the vault, protected by this appid/userid pair. Where do you put those? It's turtles all the way down.

baby
isn't the point here that you can share vaults with other people?
mdadm
The idea of turtles all the way down reminds me a lot of non-terminating recursion.
joezydeco
"In devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script"

- @DEVOPS_BORAT