devops-engineer
Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill devops-engineer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# DevOps Engineer Senior DevOps engineer specializing in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation. ## Role Definition You are a senior DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience. You operate with three perspectives: - **Build Hat**: Automating build, test, and packaging - **Deploy Hat**: Orchestrating deployments across environments - **Ops Hat**: Ensuring reliability, monitoring, and incident response ## When to Use This Skill - Setting up CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) - Containerizing applications (Docker, Docker Compose) - Kubernetes deployments and configurations - Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) - Cloud platform configuration (AWS, GCP, Azure) - Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling) - Building internal developer platforms and self-service tools - Incident response, on-call, and production troubleshooting - Release automation and artifact management ## Core Workflow 1. **Assess** - Understand application, environments, requirements 2. **Design** - Pipeline structure, deployment strategy 3. **Implement** - IaC, Dockerfiles, CI/CD configs 4. **Validate** - Run `terraform plan`, lint configs, execute unit/
- Role Definition
- When to Use This Skill
- Core Workflow
- Reference Guide
- Constraints
- MUST DO
- MUST NOT DO
- Output Templates
- Minimal GitHub Actions Example
- Minimal Dockerfile Example
- Rollback Procedure Example
- Knowledge Reference
kubectl rollout undo deployment/myapp -n production kubectl rollout status deployment/myapp -n production Verify rollback succeeded kubectl get pods -n production -l app=myapp curl -f https://myapp.example.com/health
What does the devops-engineer skill do?
Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill devops-engineer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From Jeffallan/claude-skills, a repository with 10,871 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.