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 Security Sast DastUse this skill when asked about SAST, DAST, static analysis, dynamic analysis, code scanning, SonarQube, Semgrep, Checkmarx, Fortify, OWASP ZAP, or Burp Suite. This skill enforces: SAST tool integration with custom rule writing, DAST scanning with authenticated sessions, false positive triage workflow, and CI pipeline gate configuration. Do NOT use for: dependency scanning (SBOM), container image scanning, or runtime security monitoring.
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j4flmao Bundle Backend Bulk ImportEnforce bulk data import patterns including CSV/Excel parsing, file upload handling, validation pipeline, progress tracking, batch processing, error reporting, rollback on failure, deduplication, and background processing. NOT for real-time data ingestion or streaming pipelines.
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j4flmao Bundle Vapor BackendUse this skill when building Vapor Swift backend applications — async HTTP server, Fluent ORM, WebSocket support, middleware pipeline. This skill enforces: structured concurrency with async/await, proper route grouping, Fluent migration patterns, environment-based configuration. Do NOT use for: iOS apps, macOS desktop apps, Kitura or Hummingbird projects.
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j4flmao Skill Gitops Mechanics With ArgocdDetailed examination of the ArgoCD Reconciliation Loop and Drift Detection algorithms.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Data ContractsUse this skill when asked about data contract, data agreement, schema contract, producer/consumer contract, schema evolution, compatibility, data SLA, dbt contracts, or data product contract. This skill enforces: data contract definition with schema, semantics, SLA, and ownership, contract enforcement in CI/CD, schema compatibility checks (backward/forward/full), contract versioning, dbt contract configuration, and automated contract testing. Do NOT use for: data quality testing, data catalog management, or general API contract design.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Data LakehouseUse this skill when designing lakehouse architectures with medallion layers (bronze/silver/gold), Databricks Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Apache Paimon, or multi-cloud lakehouse. This skill enforces: medallion architecture layers and data flow, Unity Catalog metastore and RBAC, Delta Sharing for data mesh, Apache Paimon table format, multi-cloud replication strategy, open format commitment. Do NOT use for: single-layer data lakes without tiering, streaming-only pipelines, or BI dashboard design.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Data WarehouseUse this skill when asked about data warehouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, star schema, snowflake schema, OLAP, dimensional modeling, fact tables, dimension tables, or data warehouse optimization. This skill enforces: dimensional modeling with star schema, platform-specific partitioning and clustering, materialized views for query performance, and cost optimization strategies. Do NOT use for: ETL pipeline design, real-time streaming, or BI dashboard configuration.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Nosql DatabaseUse this skill when asked about MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase, CosmosDB, NoSQL, document database, wide-column, key-value, consistency model, CAP theorem, sharding, or denormalization. This skill enforces: NoSQL type selection (document, key-value, wide-column, graph), MongoDB aggregation pipeline and indexing, Cassandra data modeling with partition/clustering keys, DynamoDB single-table design with GSI/LSI, CAP theorem trade-offs, consistency models (eventual, strong, quorum), and denormalization patterns. Do NOT use for: relational schema design, graph database traversal, or full-text search configuration.
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j4flmao Bundle DigitaloceanUse this skill when the user says 'DigitalOcean', 'DO', 'Droplet', 'DOKS', 'App Platform', 'Spaces', 'Managed Database', 'Floating IP', 'Cloud Firewall', 'doctl', 'Terraform DigitalOcean', 'VPC', 'Load Balancer', 'DNS', 'Container Registry', 'Functions'. Covers: core DO services, Droplets, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes, App Platform, infrastructure tooling. Do NOT use this for: AWS, Azure, GCP, or other cloud providers.
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j4flmao Bundle Hybrid CloudUse this skill when the user says 'hybrid cloud', 'hybrid-cloud', 'cloud burst', 'on-prem to cloud', 'cloud repatriation', 'hybrid connectivity', 'express route', 'direct connect', 'VPN', 'transit gateway', 'cloud interconnect', 'multi-cloud', 'cross-cloud', 'data gravity', 'cloud migration', 'hybrid workload', 'hybrid networking', 'hybrid storage', 'hybrid compute', 'hybrid identity', 'cloud agnostic'. Covers: Designing hybrid architectures, connectivity patterns, hybrid identity, hybrid compute orchestration, data synchronization, disaster recovery across environments, repatriation planning, vendor comparison. Do NOT use this for: single-cloud architectures, pure on-prem environments, or basic VPN setup without hybrid context.
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j4flmao Bundle Oracle CloudUse this skill when the user says 'oracle cloud', 'oci', 'oracle cloud infrastructure', 'oracle database cloud', 'oci compute', 'oci networking', 'oci storage', 'oci identity', 'oci iam', 'oracle autonomous database', 'oci load balancer', 'oci dns', 'oci functions', 'oci container engine', 'oke', 'oracle kubernetes', 'oci terraform', 'oci resource manager', 'oracle cloud regions', 'oci fastconnect', 'oci vcn', 'oci security list', 'oci nsg', 'oci bastion', 'oci vault', 'oci waf', 'oci email delivery', 'oci object storage', 'oci block volume', 'oci file storage', 'oci budget', 'oci cost analysis', 'oci announcements', 'oci support'. Covers: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources, networking, compute, storage, IAM, OKE (Kubernetes), Autonomous Database, and governance.
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Service MeshTrigger: "service mesh", "Istio", "Linkerd", "Envoy", "sidecar", "mTLS", "service-to-service", "mesh traffic", "virtual service", "destination rule", "service mesh observability", "mesh security" Exclusion: Not for standard K8s networking — use kubernetes-patterns.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Clean RoomUse this skill when asked about data clean room, AWS Clean Rooms, Snowflake Clean Room, PSI, Private Set Intersection, privacy-preserving data join, data collaboration, secure multi-party computation, differential privacy, privacy-enhancing technologies, or PET. This skill enforces: clean room architecture with privacy guarantees, PSI protocol selection, column-level access policies, differential privacy budget controls, and query constraints for cross-party data collaboration. Do NOT use for: ETL pipeline design, data masking/anonymization for internal use, or standard data sharing without privacy constraints.
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j4flmao Bundle Data Schema RegistryUse this skill when asked about Schema Registry, Avro, Protobuf, schema evolution, compatibility, Confluent Schema Registry, Apicurio, serialization, deserialization, or schema validation. This skill enforces: Schema Registry architecture and deployment, Avro/Protobuf/JSON Schema definition, compatibility modes (BACKWARD, FORWARD, FULL, NONE), schema evolution best practices, SerDe (serialization/deserialization) patterns, and CI/CD integration for schema governance. Do NOT use for: data contract enforcement, data catalog management, or database schema design.
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j4flmao Bundle Alibaba CloudUse this skill when the user says 'Alibaba Cloud', 'Aliyun', 'ECS', 'ACK', 'OSS', 'SLB', 'RDS', 'ApsaraDB', 'Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes', 'Container Service', 'VPC', 'Security Group', 'Resource Access Management', 'RAM', 'Terraform Alibaba Cloud', 'terraform alicloud'. Covers: compute (ECS, ECI), container orchestration (ACK, ASK), networking (VPC, SLB, PrivateLink), storage (OSS, NAS, block storage), database (RDS, PolarDB, Redis), security (RAM, KMS, WAF), serverless (FC, SAE), and cost optimization. Do NOT use for: AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers.
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j4flmao Bundle Cicd PipelineUse this skill when the user says 'CI/CD', 'GitHub Actions', 'GitLab CI', 'pipeline', 'deployment pipeline', 'automated testing pipeline', 'workflow yaml', 'build pipeline', 'deploy workflow', 'continuous integration', 'continuous delivery'. Covers: pipeline stages (lint → test → build → security scan → deploy), caching, parallel execution, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling), security scanning, secret management, rollback. Do NOT use for: Dockerfile optimization, Kubernetes, local dev setup.
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j4flmao Bundle Helm PatternsUse this skill when the user says 'helm', 'helm chart', 'helm template', 'helm install', 'helm upgrade', 'helm rollback', 'helmfile', 'helm secrets', 'helm values', 'helm dependency', 'helm repository', 'helm plugin', 'helm unittest', 'helm lint', 'helm package', 'helm registry', 'oci helm', 'helm hooks', 'helm tests', 'helm subchart', 'helm global values', 'helm library chart', 'helm umbrella chart', 'helm postrender', 'helm diff', 'helmfile', 'helm values schema', 'helm crd', 'chart museum', 'chart repo', 'helmfile environment'. Covers: Helm chart development, templating, dependency management, testing, CI/CD integration, security, advanced patterns, and operational best practices.
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j4flmao Bundle Devops OpentelemetryOpenTelemetry observability framework for distributed systems. Covers: OTel concepts (traces, metrics, logs, SDK, API, Collector, OTLP), Collector pipeline (receiver, processor, exporter, batch, sampling, tail sampling, attributes), SDK instrumentation (automatic and manual for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, .NET), trace sampling strategies (head-based, tail-based, probabilistic, consistent), multi-backend export (Jaeger, Zipkin, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana). Do NOT use for: Vendor-specific APM agent configuration without OTel.
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j4flmao Bundle Ml Anomaly DetectionUse this skill when detecting anomalies or outliers in data, building unsupervised anomaly detection systems, applying statistical methods (Z-score/IQR), proximity-based (LOF), ensemble (Isolation Forest), deep learning (autoencoder/VAE), or time-series anomaly detection. This skill enforces: method selection by data characteristics (tabular/time-series/high-dim), statistical baseline (Z-score/IQR), model configuration (contamination rate, threshold), evaluation with precision/recall at k, real-time pipeline design. Do NOT use for: supervised fraud detection with labeled data (use classification skill), data quality checks (use data-validation skill), root cause analysis of detected anomalies, or forecasting (use ml-time-series).
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j4flmao Bundle Backend Sms MessagingEnforce SMS and messaging patterns including Twilio/AWS SNS/Vonage integration, WhatsApp Business API, 2FA OTP delivery, TCPA compliance, message templates, rate limiting, and delivery analytics. NOT for push notifications or in-app messaging.
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j4flmao Bundle Dev Loop Git WorkflowUse when the user asks about Git workflows, branching strategies, git hooks, merge strategies, git history management, or team git conventions. Do NOT use for: code review (dev-loop-code-review), changelogs (dev-loop-changelog-generator), or CI/CD configuration.
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j4flmao Bundle Github ActionsUse this skill when the user says 'GitHub Actions', 'CI/CD', 'workflow', 'reusable workflow', 'composite action', 'matrix build', 'actions/checkout', 'GITHUB_TOKEN', 'self-hosted runner', or when setting up CI/CD pipelines on GitHub. Covers: workflow files, reusable workflows, composite actions, matrix strategies, expressions, environments, artifacts, caching, OIDC. Do NOT use this for: Jenkins pipelines, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or non-GitHub CI systems.
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Policy As CodeUse when the user asks about policy as code, OPA, Rego, Kyverno, admission controllers, policy enforcement, compliance as code, guardrails, or policy-based governance in Kubernetes/cloud. Covers: OPA/Rego policy writing, Gatekeeper constraint templates, Kyverno cluster policies, policy testing (conftest, opa test), CI/CD policy integration, mutation policies, policy reporting, and compliance automation. Do NOT use for: general compliance (enterprise-compliance-audit), security scanning (security-sast-dast), or RBAC design.
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Kubernetes OperatorsUse when the user asks about Kubernetes operators, custom controllers, operator pattern, Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, custom resource definitions (CRD), reconciliation loops, or extending Kubernetes with custom resources. Covers: Kubebuilder project structure, controller-runtime patterns, finalizers, status subresource, webhooks, multi-version CRDs, operator testing with envtest, operator deployment with OLM, and operator design patterns. Do NOT use for: basic Kubernetes usage (kubernetes-patterns), Helm charts (helm-patterns), or general Kubernetes management.
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Platform EngineeringUse when the user asks about platform engineering, Internal Developer Platform (IDP), Backstage, developer portals, golden paths, developer self-service, platform teams, or internal developer tooling. Do NOT use for: CI/CD pipeline setup (cicd-pipeline), Kubernetes cluster setup (kubernetes-patterns), or general DevOps automation (devops-terraform/ansible).
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j4flmao Bundle Devops Progressive DeliveryUse when the user asks about progressive delivery, canary deployments, blue-green deployments, feature flags in production, traffic shifting, A/B testing in production, Flagger, Argo Rollouts, deployment strategies, or gradual rollouts. Covers: canary analysis (Prometheus metrics, Datadog, manual judgement), traffic management (Istio, Linkerd, NGINX, SMI), feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly, Flagsmith, ConfigCat), deployment automation, and automated rollback based on metrics. Do NOT use for: basic CI/CD (cicd-pipeline), general Kubernetes (kubernetes-patterns), or feature flag development (backend-feature-flags).
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j4flmao Bundle Mobile DeploymentUse this skill when the user asks about mobile app deployment, App Store, Play Store, TestFlight, Fastlane, code signing, mobile CI/CD, app release, or beta testing.
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j4flmao Bundle Security Container SecurityUse this skill when asked about container security, image scanning, Trivy, Grype, Clair, Snyk, Dockerfile security, admission control, Kyverno, OPA, runtime security, Falco, Tracee, CVE management, container signing, Cosign, SBOM, or distroless images. This skill enforces: image scanning in CI with severity gates, Dockerfile hardening with multi-stage builds and distroless bases, Kubernetes admission control policies, runtime security monitoring with Falco, image signing with Cosign, and SBOM generation. Do NOT use for: host OS security, network security policies, or Kubernetes RBAC design.
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j4flmao Bundle Security Secrets ManagementUse this skill when asked about secrets management, secret scanning, GitLeaks, truffleHog, ggshield, Vault, credential rotation, .env files, environment variables, secrets detection, or secrets storage. This skill enforces: pre-commit secret scanning with GitLeaks/truffleHog/ggshield, centralized secret storage with Vault/AWS Secrets Manager/GCP Secret Manager, automated rotation policies, Kubernetes External Secrets, and developer prevention patterns. Do NOT use for: general dependency scanning (SBOM), container image security, or API key generation.
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j4flmao Skill Serverless 2Advanced serverless deployment and cold-start optimization skill.
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j4flmao Skill Azure FunctionsAzure Functions: Durable Execution and Event Grid
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j4flmao Skill Ebpf Networking And Cilium ArchitectureComprehensive analysis of Cilium architecture and Kernel Space XDP hooks.
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j4flmao Skill Finops Cloud CostFinOps & Cloud Cost Optimization
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j4flmao Bundle Enterprise High AvailabilityUse this skill when architecting end-to-end high-availability systems combining database replicas, load balancers, slave/standby nodes, application version sync across nodes, data sync during rolling migrations, and availability tiering from 95% (two nines) up to 99.99% (four nines) or 99.999% (five nines). This skill enforces: availability budget math, replica topology selection, L4/L7 load balancer health-check contracts, zero-downtime app version rollout (blue-green, canary, rolling), backward/forward compatible schema migrations (expand-contract), data backfill + dual-write sync, quorum + split-brain prevention, RPO/RTO targeting per tier, and runbook-driven failover. Do NOT use for: pure SLA contract negotiation (see enterprise-sla-management), CDC streaming pipelines (see data-cdc-patterns), or basic Kubernetes rollout configs (see devops-kubernetes-patterns).
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j4flmao Skill Persona Devops Sre EngineerAdopts the persona of a Staff-level DevOps/SRE Engineer. Focuses on IaC, CI/CD, 99.99% Uptime, Observability, and Chaos Engineering.
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j4flmao Bundle Gitops WorkflowsGitOps Workflows & Progressive Delivery
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 security-sast-dast, backend-bulk-import, vapor-backend. 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.