kubernetes-specialist
Senior Kubernetes engineer. Use when writing, reviewing, or debugging Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and cluster configurations.
Senior Kubernetes engineer. Use when writing, reviewing, or debugging Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and cluster configurations.
Monitor sBTC balance and auto-route excess above a reserve threshold to Zest yield
Kubernetes and kubectl mastery for deployments, services, pods, debugging, and cluster management. Use when user asks to "deploy to k8s", "create deployment", "debug pod", "kubectl commands", "scale service", "check pod logs", "create ingress", or any Kubernetes tasks.
Use this skill when containerizing applications, writing Dockerfiles, deploying to Kubernetes, creating Helm charts, or configuring service mesh. Triggers on Docker, Kubernetes, k8s, containers, pods, deployments, services, ingress, Helm, Istio, container orchestration, and any task requiring container or cluster management.
Kubernetes Python client for programmatic cluster management. Use when working with Kubernetes API, managing pods, deployments, services, namespaces, configmaps, secrets, jobs, CRDs, EKS clusters, watching resources, automating K8s operations, or building Kubernetes controllers.
Karpenter for intelligent Kubernetes node autoscaling on EKS. Use when configuring node provisioning, optimizing costs with Spot instances, replacing Cluster Autoscaler, implementing consolidation, or achieving 20-70% cost savings.
Generate production-ready Dockerfiles with multi-stage builds, security best practices, and optimization. Use when containerizing Python applications for production deployment.
Deploy Kubernetes workloads to real cloud providers. Use when provisioning managed Kubernetes (DOKS, AKS, GKE, EKS, Civo) or self-managed clusters (Hetzner + K3s). Covers CLI tools, cluster creation, LoadBalancers, DNS, TLS, and cost optimization.
Complete CI/CD guide for Cloudflare Workers using GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Use for automated testing, deployment pipelines, preview environments, secrets management, or encountering deployment failures, workflow errors, environment configuration issues.
Cloudflare Workers KV global key-value storage. Use for namespaces, caching, TTL, or encountering KV_ERROR, 429 rate limits, consistency issues.
Health check endpoints for liveness, readiness, dependency monitoring. Use for Kubernetes, load balancers, auto-scaling, or encountering probe failures, startup delays, dependency checks, timeout configuration errors.
Configures API gateways for routing, authentication, rate limiting, and request transformation in microservice architectures. Use when setting up Kong, Nginx, AWS API Gateway, or Traefik for centralized API management.
Generate Docker Compose and Dockerfile configurations for local development through interactive Q&A. Supports PHP/Laravel, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Node.js, and Python stacks with Nginx, Supervisor/PM2, databases, Redis, and email testing. Always asks clarifying questions before generating configurations.
CI/CD operations: GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and CI timeout configuration. Use when configuring pipelines, debugging deployments, or working with GitHub Actions. Do NOT use for general development workflow.
Review Docker and container security audit patterns. Use for auditing secrets in layers, port exposure, and non-root users. Use proactively when Dockerfile or docker-compose.yml is present. Examples: - user: "Audit this Dockerfile" → check for secrets in ENV/ARG and non-root USER - user: "Review docker-compose ports" → find accidentally exposed databases - user: "Check for secrets in image history" → audit layers and build artifacts - user: "Optimize Docker security" → implement multi-stage builds and minimal base images - user: "Audit container privileges" → check for privileged: true or docker.sock mounts
Reference the Kubernetes API. Useful for understanding what is possible via the Kubernetes REST API.
Robust deployment patterns for Elastic Beanstalk with GitHub Actions, Pulumi, and edge case handling
Use when deploying Node.js applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk or troubleshooting deployment issues - provides dependency installation strategies, monorepo handling, and deployment best practices
Policy-as-code enforcement and compliance validation using Open Policy Agent (OPA). Use when: (1) Enforcing security and compliance policies across infrastructure and applications, (2) Validating Kubernetes admission control policies, (3) Implementing policy-as-code for compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA), (4) Testing and evaluating OPA Rego policies, (5) Integrating policy checks into CI/CD pipelines, (6) Auditing configuration drift against organizational security standards, (7) Implementing least-privilege access controls.
Discover and load tools progressively as needed (reduces token overhead)