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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.

isn't the point here that you can share vaults with other people?

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."

Haha me too. "Our logger failed silently" "Shouldn't that have been recorded somewhere?" "I guess it's turtles all the way down"

"In devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script"

- @DEVOPS_BORAT

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."

https://github.com/verdverm/discworld

I hate to say this, but Discworld is pretty much not turtles all the way down: the Great A'Tuin just swims in space, as astrochelonians normally do.

Exactly! It's silly to think otherwise.

The idea of turtles all the way down reminds me a lot of non-terminating recursion.