DevOps & Infra
DevOps agent skills automate the delivery side of software: CI/CD pipelines, Dockerfiles, infrastructure as code, releases, and incident checklists. A skill gives your AI agent the exact runbook to follow, so deployments and configs come out consistent every time.
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j4flmao Bundle Quality Smoke TestingUse when the user asks about smoke testing, build verification testing (BVT), deployment health checks, canary testing, sanity testing, or CI/CD pipeline health checks. Do NOT use for: full regression testing (quality-regression-testing), acceptance testing (quality-acceptance-testing), or end-to-end testing (quality-e2e-testing).
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j4flmao Bundle Dev Loop Dev ContainerUse when the user asks about development containers, devcontainer.json, Dev Containers in VS Code/GitHub Codespaces, Docker-based dev environments, or reproducible development setups. Do NOT use for: production Dockerfiles, or CI/CD pipelines.
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j4flmao Bundle Docker PatternsUse this skill when the user says 'Dockerfile', 'Docker', 'Docker Compose', 'containerize', 'container', 'docker build', 'multi-stage build', 'docker-compose.yml', or when containerizing an application. Covers: multi-stage builds, non-root users, .dockerignore, layer caching, health checks, Docker Compose for development, and production vs development separation. Works with any language/stack. Do NOT use this for: Kubernetes (use kubernetes-patterns), CI/CD pipeline design, or infrastructure provisioning.
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j4flmao Bundle Dotnet PatternsUse this skill when implementing .NET patterns — MediatR pipelines, CQRS, Result pattern, EF Core patterns, pipeline behaviors, and event sourcing. This skill enforces: MediatR for CQRS, FluentValidation for validation, Result type for error handling, EF Core conventions. Requires .NET SDK (dotnet new). Do NOT use for: Java, Node.js, Go, or non-.NET stacks.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Data ObservabilityUse this skill when designing data observability: data quality monitoring, data lineage, data profiling, anomaly detection, data health dashboards, freshness checks, row count tracking, schema drift detection, and data incident management. This skill enforces: monitoring all data pipeline stages, automated quality checks, column-level lineage, freshness SLAs, anomaly detection on row counts and distributions, and incident response playbooks. Do NOT use for: infrastructure monitoring (CPU/memory), application performance monitoring, or user analytics.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Pipeline CicdUse this skill when asked about data pipeline CI/CD, dbt Cloud CI/CD, SQLFluff, SQL linting, Atlantis for SQL, data pipeline testing, environment promotion, schema change management, dbt test, data quality in CI, dataops, or database change management. This skill enforces: dbt Cloud CI/CD with environment promotion gates, SQL linting with SQLFluff in CI, schema change management with migration scripts, data pipeline testing (dbt test, data diff), and Atlantis-style SQL review workflows. Do NOT use for: application CI/CD, infrastructure CI/CD, standard Terraform Atlantis, or API pipeline testing.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Data VirtualizationUse this skill when asked about data virtualization, Trino, Presto, Starburst, Dremio, query federation, federated query, cross-source join, pushdown, connector, or data lake query engine. This skill enforces: Trino/Presto architecture (coordinator/worker), connector patterns for query federation, query pushdown optimization, cross-source join strategies, Starburst enterprise features, Dremio reflections for acceleration, and performance tuning. Do NOT use for: ETL pipeline development, data warehouse schema design, or OLTP database query optimization.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Distributed ComputeUse this skill when designing distributed compute for Hadoop MapReduce, Spark, Dask, Ray, YARN, or K8s resource management. This skill enforces: execution model selection, cluster topology, shuffle optimization, data locality, speculative execution, and resource tuning. Do NOT use for: single-node compute, GPU-only training, or SQL-only batch queries (see data-batch-processing).
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j4flmao Bundle Quality Contract TestingUse this skill when setting up contract testing, Pact, consumer-driven contracts, provider contract verification, API compatibility, or integration testing between services. This skill enforces: consumer-driven contracts with Pact, provider-side verification, contract publishing to a broker, versioning strategy, CI pipeline integration, and breaking change detection. Do NOT use for: API end-to-end tests, schema validation only, or single-service testing.
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j4flmao Skill GCP BigqueryGCP BigQuery: Dremel and Capacitor
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j4flmao Bundle Istio And Envoy Service Mesh MechanicsDeep dive into Istio, Envoy Proxy mechanics, iptables interception, and eBPF routing optimizations.
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j4flmao Bundle Cloud ArchitectureUse this skill when the user says 'cloud architecture', 'Well-Architected', 'landing zone', 'multi-cloud', 'hybrid cloud', 'cloud design', 'cloud patterns', 'microservices', 'event-driven architecture', 'resilience patterns', 'cloud migration strategy', 'cloud governance', 'cloud security architecture', 'cost-aware architecture'. Covers: Well-Architected Framework (AWS/Azure/GCP), landing zone design, multi-cloud strategy, resilience patterns (circuit breaker, bulkhead, etc.), migration patterns, governance, cloud-native architecture patterns. Do NOT use for: specific cloud provider implementation (use aws/azure/gcp skills).
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j4flmao Bundle Database MigrationUse this skill when the user says 'database migration', 'schema migration', 'DB migration', 'Flyway', 'Liquibase', 'Alembic', 'Prisma Migrate', 'DMS', 'AWS DMS', 'Azure DMS', 'Database Migration Service', 'zero-downtime migration', 'online migration', 'offline migration', 'homogeneous migration', 'heterogeneous migration', 'schema drift'. Covers: schema migration tools, online/offline migration strategies, homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations, zero-downtime deployments, migration rollback, testing, and validation. Do NOT use for: general cloud migration (use cloud-migration skill).
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j4flmao Bundle FirebaseUse this skill when working with Firebase platform — Firestore, Authentication, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Hosting, Security Rules, Firebase Admin SDK, Firebase Extensions. This skill enforces: proper security rules, Firestore data modeling (no nesting >3), auth provider configuration, function cold start mitigation, cost-aware query design. Do NOT use for: Supabase, AWS Amplify, custom backend, general PostgreSQL/NoSQL database design.
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j4flmao Bundle SupabaseUse this skill when working with Supabase platform — PostgreSQL schema, Row Level Security, Realtime subscriptions, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, pgvector. This skill enforces: RLS policies on every table, proper PostgreSQL schema design, real-time channel organization, storage bucket policies, edge function cold start handling. Do NOT use for: Firebase, AWS Amplify, Appwrite, general PostgreSQL architecture (use database-patterns), non-PostgreSQL backends.
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j4flmao Skill K8S OperatorsKubernetes Operators and CRDs
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Kubernetes For DataUse this skill when running data workloads on Kubernetes: Spark on K8s, Airflow on K8s, Kafka on K8s, Strimzi, Spark Operator, Volcano, GPU scheduling, node pools, Karpenter, CSI storage for data workloads. This skill enforces: resource management for Spark executors, GPU scheduling config, node pool design, storage class selection, operator configuration. Do NOT use for: general Kubernetes (use kubernetes-patterns), data pipeline design (use etl-pipeline), Kafka topic design (use streaming).
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j4flmao Bundle Enterprise Cost GovernanceUse this skill when implementing cloud cost governance: cost allocation, budgets, chargeback, anomaly detection, and optimization. This skill enforces: tagging strategy, budget alerts, cost anomaly detection, showback/chargeback. Do NOT use for: FinOps tool selection, procurement, vendor negotiation, invoice reconciliation.
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j4flmao Bundle Enterprise Data GovernanceUse this skill when implementing data governance frameworks: classification, cataloging, lineage, quality, and retention. This skill enforces: data classification, schema registry, lineage tracking, quality monitoring. Do NOT use for: database administration, ETL implementation, data pipeline engineering.
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j4flmao Skill AWS ServerlessAWS Serverless: Deep Dive into Lambda and Firecracker
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j4flmao Bundle Data Cost OptimizationUse this skill when asked about data cost optimization, Snowflake cost management, BigQuery slot management, S3 storage tiering, warehouse cost optimization, FinOps for data, cloud data cost reduction, or query cost analysis. This skill enforces: Snowflake credit usage analysis with query optimization, BigQuery slot commitment planning and reservation management, S3 lifecycle policies for storage tiering, warehouse auto-scaling and clustering configuration, and FinOps practices for data platform cost allocation. Do NOT use for: general cloud FinOps (use dedicated FinOps skill), data pipeline design (use data-etl-pipeline), or infrastructure cost estimation (use infra-costing skill).
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j4flmao Skill Kubernetes InternalsThe Kubernetes Control Plane under the hood, etcd consensus (Raft), kube-apiserver event loops, kubelet operation, and CNI fundamentals.
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j4flmao Skill Sass Machine CodeDeep dive into NVIDIA binary machine code (SASS), analyzing clock cycles, pipeline stalls, warp scheduling, and the FFMA instruction pipeline.
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j4flmao Skill Kubernetes ArchitectureKubernetes (K8s) Architecture & Deployments
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j4flmao Skill Cloudflare WorkersEdge Computing & V8 Isolates
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j4flmao Skill Serverless OrchestrationServerless Orchestration (Step Functions)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 1 4Ensure that default service accounts are not actively used (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 1 5Ensure that Service Account Tokens are only mounted where necessary (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 1 6Avoid use of system:masters group (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 1 7Limit use of the Bind, Impersonate and Escalate permissions in the Kubernetes cluster (Manual)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 1 8Avoid bindings to system:anonymous (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 3 1Ensure that the CNI in use supports Network Policies (Manual)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 4 1Prefer using secrets as files over secrets as environment variables (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 4 2Consider external secret storage (Manual)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 6 2Ensure that the seccomp profile is set to RuntimeDefault in the pod definitions (Automated)
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cyberstrikeus Skill Cis Gke V180 4 6 3Apply Security Context to Pods and Containers (Manual)
Frequently asked questions
What are DevOps & Infra agent skills?
DevOps agent skills automate the delivery side of software: CI/CD pipelines, Dockerfiles, infrastructure as code, releases, and incident checklists. A skill gives your AI agent the exact runbook to follow, so deployments and configs come out consistent every time.
Which DevOps & Infra skills are most installed?
Popular DevOps & Infra skills on SkillMD right now include quality-smoke-testing, dev-loop-dev-container, docker-patterns. Rankings shift as installs change; sort this page by "Most installs" for the live list.
Do DevOps & Infra skills work with Claude Code and Cursor?
Yes. Every skill here ships as a SKILL.md file, an open format that works in Claude Code, Claude.ai, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and 60+ other agents. Install one with npx skillmds@latest add <owner>/<name>, or copy the file into your agent's skills directory.