Same here! Started learning self hosted k3s, with terraform and IaC and all the bells and whistles. I would never have had the energy to look up how to even get started. In three hours I have a cluster.
IOW, can you redo it by yourself? If you can't then you did not learn it.
Knowing the abstract steps and tripwires yes, but details will always have to be looked up. If just not to miss any new developments.
Well, yes it is; you can't very well claim to have learned something if you are unable to do it.
I get that point, but the original post I replied to didn't say "Hey, I know have $THING set up when I never had it before", he said "I learned to do $THING", which is a whole different assertion.
I'm not contending the assertion that he now has a thing he did not have before, I'm contending the assertion that he has learned something.