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Kubernetes skills for Claude Code and Codex
Skills for creating, scaling, securing and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters on GKE, AKS and self-managed nodes, plus mirrord for running local code against a live cluster. They give an agent the kubectl, manifest and cluster-operations knowledge a platform team uses daily.
Highest-scoring Kubernetes skills in the October 22, 2026 snapshot: google-cloud-solution-rag-enterprise-search-gke-sqldb from google/skills (87/100), devops-engineer from jeffallan/claude-skills (84/100) and mirrord-ci from metalbear-co/skills (83/100). Scores come from the Suede Skill Check.
- 72 listed skills
- 8 repositories
- 10 with full pages
62 from official publishers. 13 bundle scripts. 4 connect to an outside service. Listed in DevOps and Cloud (67), AI Agents and LLM Engineering (3), Security (2).
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| Skill | Repository | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| devops-engineer 84/100 · B | jeffallan/claude-skills | Creates Dockerfiles, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and Terraform or Pulumi templates, and handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, and incident response runbooks. |
| google-cloud-solution-rag-enterprise-search-gke-sqldb 87/100 · B | google/skills | Generates architecture, design, and deployment guidance for a RAG-capable enterprise search system on Google Cloud, using a vector-enabled SQL database and Kubernetes containers. |
| kubernetes-specialist 84/100 · B | jeffallan/claude-skills | Guides deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads, including manifests, pod security, RBAC, network policies, Helm charts, debugging pod crashes, and right-sizing resources. |
| mirrord-ci 83/100 · B | metalbear-co/skills | Helps set up mirrord in CI pipelines to run end-to-end, integration, or automated tests against real staging or shared Kubernetes clusters. |
| mirrord-config 83/100 · B | metalbear-co/skills | Generates, edits, and validates mirrord.json configuration files for connecting a local process to a Kubernetes environment, ensuring the output JSON is valid and schema-conformant. |
| mirrord-kafka 78/100 · C | metalbear-co/skills | Configures mirrord Operator Kafka queue splitting end to end, generating MirrordSplitConfig and MirrordPropertyList CRD YAMLs, the mirrord.json split_queues section, and Helm value guidance. |
| mirrord-operator 83/100 · B | metalbear-co/skills | Guides installing and configuring the mirrord Operator for team and enterprise environments, including Helm installation, license configuration, enabling features, RBAC, and multi-user deployments. |
| mirrord-quickstart 80/100 · B | metalbear-co/skills | Guides new users through installing mirrord via CLI, VS Code, or IntelliJ, running a first session against a Kubernetes target, and verifying the connection. |
| mirrord-temporal 81/100 · B | metalbear-co/skills | Configures mirrord Operator Temporal task queue splitting end to end, generating MirrordSplitConfig and MirrordPropertyList CRD YAMLs, the mirrord.json split_queues section, and Helm value guidance. |
| qdrant-hybrid-cloud-setup 79/100 · C | qdrant/skills | Guides installing and running Qdrant Hybrid Cloud on your own Kubernetes cluster, covering storage, backups, the agent and operator, cluster exposure, and secret rotation. |
| airunway-aks-setup 75/100 · C | microsoft/azure-skills | Set up AI Runway on AKS — from bare cluster to running model. Covers cluster verification, controller install, GPU assessment, provider setup, and… |
| aks-gpu-inference 84/100 · B | microsoft/azure-skills | Diagnose Day-2 AKS GPU and KAITO incidents using profile-aware, read-only evidence. WHEN: 'Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu', GPU pod Pending, model-load… |
| aks-known-issues 75/100 · C | microsoft/azure-skills | Lookup documented AKS fixes only when the prompt includes an exact catalog signature and all of its qualifiers: VMCannotFitEphemeralOSDisk… |
| aks-network-capture 82/100 · B | microsoft/azure-skills | Collects bounded packet captures from AKS nodes and Azure network configuration for wire-level evidence. WHEN: "capture packets on an AKS node"… |
| aks-troubleshooting 85/100 · B | microsoft/azure-skills | Debug live Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) incidents with a read-only, evidence-first investigation. WHEN: pod crashes or Pending, CrashLoopBackOff… |
| aws-containers 70/100 · C | aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws | Builds and deploys containerized workloads on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, and ECR (Elastic Container… |
| azure-kubernetes 70/100 · C | microsoft/azure-skills | Plan, create, and configure production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Covers Day-0 checklist, SKU selection (Automatic vs Standard)… |
| azure-kubernetes-app-deploy 76/100 · C | microsoft/azure-skills | Use when deploying an existing web application or API to an already-running Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. Detects the framework, generates a… |
| azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness 74/100 · C | microsoft/azure-skills | Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility. Identifies incompatibilities, generates fixes, and guides… |
| azure-local 69/100 · D | microsoft/azure-skills | Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates… |
| dynamo-recipe-runner 83/100 · B | NVIDIA/skills | Select, validate, patch, and deploy existing NVIDIA Dynamo Kubernetes recipes. Use for model/backend/GPU/deployment-mode recipe bring-up; use… |
| gem-devops-guidelines 74/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Design or review infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, health checks, rollback, feature flags, production readiness, and mobile… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-handle-disruption-gpu-tpu 84/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses, predicts, and mitigates node disruptions during Compute Engine host maintenance and hardware or software maintenance events for GPU and… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-jobset-interruption 89/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses GKE JobSet interruptions, restarts, and preemptions for AI/ML training workloads autonomously. Use when troubleshooting JobSet restart… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-node-unresponsive-timeout 87/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose and mitigate GKE TPU or GPU nodes stuck in NotReady / NodeStatusUnknown ("Kubelet stopped posting node status") due to host kernel panics… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-dynamic-slices-monitoring 89/100 · B | google/skills | Monitors, troubleshoots, and manages GKE TPU Dynamic Slices custom resources. Use when checking TPU slice lifecycle states, troubleshooting slice… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-metrics-monitoring 89/100 · B | google/skills | Monitors and troubleshoots GKE TPU workloads, nodes, and node pools using GKE system metrics and PromQL. Use when monitoring TensorCore duty cycle… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-mxla-hang 85/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose GKE Cloud TPU multi-slice training hangs (Megascale `HANG_DETECTED` logs and hang monitored events) using the ML Diagnostics `Megascale XLA… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-partition-overlap 84/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose and resolve GKE TPU slice creation failures (SliceCreationFailed) caused by partition overlap conflicts where requested TPU partitions or… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-performance-degradation 85/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose GKE Cloud TPU training throughput drops and step-time regressions (15%+ TPU duty-cycle drop) using ML Diagnostics Workload Monitoring… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-reservation-stockout 82/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose and resolve cluster-wide GKE TPU node pool creation or scale-up failures caused by Compute Engine reservation stockouts (GCE_STOCKOUT… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-slice-mig-stuck-updating 82/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose and resolve GKE TPU Dynamic Slice creation and JobSet scheduling failures blocked by underlying Compute Engine managed instance groups… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-vbar-oom 89/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses and prevents vbar_control_agent segfaults, out-of-memory (OOM) errors, and TPU device initialization failures on TPU v6e nodes in GKE… |
| gke-ai-troubleshooting-tpu-vm-repair-stuck 82/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnose GKE TPU VM instances stuck in Compute Engine repair (REPAIRING state) after host errors, maintenance events, or faulty host reports in… |
| gke-alert-configuration 89/100 · B | google/skills | Configures alerting policies in Terraform for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, workloads, and services using PromQL and Google Cloud Managed… |
| gke-app-onboarding 87/100 · B | google/skills | Manages GKE application onboarding, covering containerization, deployment manifests, and migration. Use when onboarding or deploying an application… |
| gke-backup-dr 84/100 · B | google/skills | Configures Backup for GKE: the BackupRestore cluster addon, BackupPlan and RestorePlan resources, restore workflows, and CMEK-encrypted backups. Use… |
| gke-basics 84/100 · B | google/skills | Manages core GKE cluster provisioning, credentials, Autopilot vs Standard selection, and workload deployment. Use when creating GKE clusters… |
| gke-batch-hpc 84/100 · B | google/skills | Runs batch and HPC workloads on GKE, utilizing job queues and parallel processing. Use when running GKE batch jobs, configuring GKE HPC, or setting… |
| gke-cluster-autoscaler 87/100 · B | google/skills | Trigger on mention of GKE cluster autoscaler, node autoscaling, node pool auto-creation / node auto-provisioning. Provides guidance on enabling and… |
| gke-cluster-creation 84/100 · B | google/skills | Plans and executes GKE cluster creation, provisioning, and production readiness audits using pre-defined templates (Autopilot, Standard Regional… |
| gke-compute-classes 84/100 · B | google/skills | Configures, optimizes, and troubleshoots GKE ComputeClasses. Use when configuring Spot VMs with on-demand fallback, targeting specific accelerators… |
| gke-cost-analysis 87/100 · B | google/skills | Answer natural language questions and perform analysis on GKE cluster and workload costs using BigQuery billing exports, cost allocation data, and… |
| gke-cost-optimization 84/100 · B | google/skills | Optimizes GKE costs, rightsizes workloads, and configures Spot VMs, CUDs, cost allocation, and resource quotas. Use when optimizing GKE cluster or… |
| gke-custom-golden-image-discovery 81/100 · B | google/skills | Discovers golden base images for creating GKE custom node images based on technical specifications or context clues. Use when finding the golden… |
| gke-golden-path 84/100 · B | google/skills | Provides GKE golden path configuration defaults, production readiness checklists, and cluster default patterns. Use when designing GKE clusters… |
| gke-inference 84/100 · B | google/skills | Deploys and optimizes AI/ML inference workloads on GKE, using GPUs, TPUs, and model servers. Use when deploying GKE inference servers, configuring… |
| gke-manifest-generation 85/100 · B | google/skills | Generates and updates secure, production-ready Kubernetes YAML manifests optimized for GKE Autopilot and GKE Standard clusters. Use when creating or… |
| gke-multitenancy 84/100 · B | google/skills | Plans and configures multi-tenancy on GKE. Covers namespace isolation, RBAC planning for teams, resource quotas, LimitRanges, network isolation, and… |
| gke-networking 84/100 · B | google/skills | Plans, configures, and manages core GKE cluster networking. Covers private clusters, VPC-native configurations, DNS, node egress, Dataplane V2, and… |
| gke-node-notready 84/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses GKE nodes reporting NotReady or Unknown status by inspecting node conditions, events, kubelet/containerd logs, and node metrics, then… |
| gke-observability 84/100 · B | google/skills | Configures GKE observability, including Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and managed Prometheus. Use when configuring GKE monitoring, setting up GKE… |
| gke-platform-security 82/100 · B | google/skills | Plans, configures, and hardens platform-level Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster security. Covers cluster add-ons (Secret Manager enablement)… |
| gke-productionize 84/100 · B | google/skills | Orchestrates comprehensive production readiness reviews and assessments for GKE clusters and workloads across scalability, security, reliability… |
| gke-reliability 84/100 · B | google/skills | Improves GKE workload reliability, using PDBs, health probes, and topology spread constraints. Use when configuring GKE workload reliability… |
| gke-service-networking 84/100 · B | google/skills | Configures GKE edge networking, traffic routing, load balancing, and private service endpoints. Use when configuring Gateway API manifests, standard… |
| gke-storage 84/100 · B | google/skills | Manages GKE storage, including PVCs, PersistentVolumes, and Filestore. Use when configuring GKE storage or creating PVCs. For GCS FUSE mounts, use… |
| gke-storage-troubleshooting 84/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses GKE persistent-storage failures — volume attach/mount errors (Regional PD on optimized VMs, fsGroup mount timeouts), disk-performance and… |
| gke-upgrades 86/100 · B | google/skills | Plans, executes, and validates Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster upgrades and maintenance operations for both Standard and Autopilot clusters… |
| gke-workload-identity 85/100 · B | google/skills | Configures and diagnoses Workload Identity Federation for GKE authentication failures for Pods (403 "iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken" /… |
| gke-workload-scaling 84/100 · B | google/skills | Manages scaling for GKE workloads using HPA and VPA. Use when configuring Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), configuring Vertical Pod Autoscaler… |
| gke-workload-scaling-troubleshooting 82/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses GKE HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) failures — metrics showing as <unknown>, FailedGetResourceMetric / FailedGetScale /… |
| gke-workload-security 84/100 · B | google/skills | Audits, configures, and hardens workload-level security controls for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) applications and namespaces. Covers running… |
| gke-workload-troubleshooting 84/100 · B | google/skills | Diagnoses GKE workload failures (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, Pending, etc.) via logs and events. Use when pods fail to start or… |
| google-cloud-solution-guided-gke-ai-migration 79/100 · C | google/skills | Guides the migration of existing AI workloads (Cloud Run, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) to self-hosted GKE inference using gcloud… |
| launch-nemo-rl 72/100 · C | NVIDIA/skills | Playbook for launching, monitoring, stopping, and debugging NeMo-RL recipes on a Kubernetes cluster via the nrl-k8s CLI. Covers ephemeral vs… |
| mirrord-prev-env 69/100 · D | metalbear-co/skills | Help users create and manage mirrord preview environments — running a modified service as an isolated pod in a shared Kubernetes cluster, scoped by… |
| mirrord-propagation-discovery 72/100 · C | metalbear-co/skills | Scans a live Kubernetes environment with `mirrord dump` to find an identifier mirrord can filter traffic on: a header, a `baggage` or `tracestate`… |
| paidf-orchestration-setup 75/100 · C | NVIDIA/skills | Audit, prepare, and deploy PAIDF Orchestration on a Kubernetes GPU cluster - single-GPU H100/L40S hosts, managed Kubernetes, kubeadm, and similar… |
| physical-ai-infrastructure-setup-and-resilient-scaling 78/100 · C | NVIDIA/skills | Use when the user wants to set up, scale, validate, or harden NVIDIA physical AI infrastructure for synthetic data generation workflows across local… |
| quarkus-native-and-container 77/100 · C | github/awesome-copilot | Build Quarkus native executables (Mandrel/GraalVM), fix native failures with reflection registration, test the native binary, and produce container… |
| tao-run-on-kubernetes 87/100 · B | NVIDIA/skills | Kubernetes execution platform — submits TAO container jobs as k8s Jobs with NVIDIA GPU scheduling; single-pod for one node, Indexed Jobs for… |
How to choose Kubernetes skills
Most listings are vendor-published: Google ships a large GKE set (cluster creation, autoscaling, workload identity, TPU and GPU troubleshooting) and Microsoft ships AKS skills. Choose the set for the managed service you run.
Cluster skills act on live infrastructure through kubectl and the cloud CLI. Give the agent a context scoped to a dev namespace or cluster, and read the tool permissions on each page first.
For day-to-day development against a shared cluster, the mirrord skills set up local processes that borrow cluster traffic and config; they need the mirrord CLI and, for some features, the mirrord operator.
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