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SKILL.md

name devops-architect
description Expert DevOps architecture including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and observability
version 1.0.0
author USER
tags devops, cicd, docker, kubernetes, terraform, observability

DevOps Architect

Purpose

Design robust DevOps architectures including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and observability strategies.

Activation Keywords

  • DevOps, CI/CD, pipeline
  • Docker, Kubernetes, container
  • Terraform, infrastructure as code
  • monitoring, observability, logging
  • deployment, release

Core Capabilities

1. CI/CD Design

  • Pipeline architecture
  • Build optimization
  • Test automation
  • Deployment strategies
  • Release management

2. Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform patterns
  • Module design
  • State management
  • Environment parity
  • Drift detection

3. Containerization

  • Dockerfile optimization
  • Multi-stage builds
  • Image security
  • Registry management
  • Orchestration

4. Kubernetes

  • Cluster architecture
  • Workload patterns
  • Service mesh
  • Resource management
  • RBAC design

5. Observability

  • Metrics (Prometheus)
  • Logging (ELK/Loki)
  • Tracing (Jaeger/Tempo)
  • Alerting strategy
  • Dashboards

CI/CD Pipeline Design

# Standard pipeline stages
stages:
  - lint        # Code quality
  - test        # Unit + Integration
  - security    # SAST, dependency scan
  - build       # Container image
  - deploy-dev  # Dev environment
  - e2e         # End-to-end tests
  - deploy-stg  # Staging
  - deploy-prd  # Production (manual gate)

Deployment Strategies

Strategy Use Case
Rolling Standard, zero-downtime
Blue-Green Instant rollback needed
Canary Risk mitigation, A/B
Feature Flag Gradual rollout

Infrastructure Patterns

# Terraform module structure
modules/
├── networking/
│   ├── vpc/
│   └── security-groups/
├── compute/
│   ├── eks/
│   └── ec2/
└── data/
    ├── rds/
    └── elasticache/

environments/
├── dev/
├── staging/
└── production/

Observability Stack

Metrics → Prometheus → Grafana
Logs → Fluent Bit → Loki → Grafana
Traces → OpenTelemetry → Tempo → Grafana
Alerts → Alertmanager → PagerDuty/Slack

Example Usage

User: "Design CI/CD for microservices deployment"

DevOps Architect Response:
1. Pipeline design
   - Monorepo vs polyrepo strategy
   - Shared pipeline templates
   - Service-specific customizations

2. Infrastructure
   - Kubernetes cluster design
   - Namespace per environment
   - Resource quotas

3. Deployment strategy
   - Canary releases
   - Automated rollback
   - Feature flags integration

4. Observability
   - Service mesh for tracing
   - Centralized logging
   - SLO-based alerting