Ops Devops Platform

What it does

This skill provides templates, checklists, and patterns to automate DevOps tasks across various platforms. It focuses on building self-service platforms, implementing GitOps workflows, deploying applications securely (DevSecOps), scaling with Kubernetes, ensuring system reliability through SRE practices, and establishing strong observability for production systems. The skill supports infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, CI/CD pipeline setup, security scanning, monitoring & alerting, load testing, incident response, and platform engineering.

When to use it

• Provisioning cloud resources declaratively using tools like Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Implementing continuous reconciliation of deployments with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters using kubectl or Helm charts.
• Automating CI/CD pipelines, particularly within GitHub-based environments using GitHub Actions.
• Setting up vulnerability scanning and runtime security enforcement with tools like Trivy and Tetragon.

Key capabilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning with Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi.
• GitOps deployment workflows utilizing Argo CD or Flux.
• Kubernetes deployments managed via kubectl or Helm charts.
• CI/CD pipeline automation using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Tekton.
• Security scanning with Trivy, Falco, and Tetragon.
• Monitoring and alerting through Prometheus and Grafana.

Example prompts

• "Create a Terraform configuration to provision an EC2 instance."
• "Deploy my application using Argo CD."
• "Generate a GitHub Actions workflow for CI/CD."
• “Scan this Docker image for vulnerabilities: myapp:latest”

Tips & gotchas

• The skill is designed to work with modern DevOps tooling, including Terraform/OpenTofu, Argo CD/Flux, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, and eBPF-powered tools like Cilium.
• When choosing an IaC tool, consider whether you need cloud-agnostic support (Terraform/OpenTofu), a programming-first approach (Pulumi), or specific AWS/GCP/Azure solutions.
• For Kubernetes deployments, choose between kubectl for simple deployments and Helm charts for more complex applications.