Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting.
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Top DevOps & Infrastructure Skills
Terraform, AWS/GCP/Azure, CI/CD pipelines, container management, IaC patterns.
18 skills indexed · ranked by composite score
Top 6 DevOps skills
- 1.firebase-hosting-basics—Firebase-authored. Init, configure, and one-step deploy to Firebase Hosting / App Hosting.
- 2.deploy-checklist—The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff.
- 3.incident-response—Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.
- 4.sentry-error-handling—Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.
- 5.update-config—Edit settings.json safely. Hooks, perms, env, behaviors.
- 6.loop—Recurring task runner. Self-paced or interval-based.
About DevOps & Infrastructure
The best agent skills for DevOps and infrastructure in 2026 are the cloud-vendor-authored Skills — HashiCorp for Terraform module authoring, the GitHub Actions Skills for CI/CD pipeline design, and the Vercel/Netlify/Cloudflare platform Skills for deploy automation — each encoding the canonical pattern for its ecosystem. DevOps & infrastructure Skills handle the long tail of cloud, container, and CI/CD work that engineering teams used to outsource to platform specialists. Terraform module authoring, Kubernetes manifest generation, GitHub Actions workflow design, Docker hardening, AWS / GCP / Azure resource provisioning, secrets-management patterns, blue-green deploys, rollback playbooks — each is a Skill that loads when the work calls for it and stays out of the way otherwise.
These Skills get used the moment a small team can no longer pretend infrastructure is someone else's problem. Common workflows include writing a Terraform module for a new VPC, debugging a failing GitHub Actions pipeline, generating Kubernetes resources for a new service, designing a multi-stage Docker build, automating deploy and rollback flows, and authoring runbooks for on-call. Several pair with cloud MCP servers (Vercel, Netlify, AWS, GCP) for live state.
Platform engineers, SREs, and full-stack developers wearing the DevOps hat use these Skills heavily. Composite scoring weights provenance (HashiCorp, cloud vendors, recognized SRE orgs), real-world install count, and how cleanly the Skill handles the messy parts: state management, secrets, region-specific quirks, and rollback paths.
Ranked by score
Best DevOps Skills
Skills that do devops well — ranked transparently.
The pre-ship checklist that catches the embarrassing stuff.
Incident triage + comms + blameless postmortem in one harness.
Sentry the right way. Source maps, releases, breadcrumbs, performance, structured tags.
Netlify-authored deploy flow. Auth, site linking, Deploy Previews, production promotes.
Cloudflare-authored. Workers and Pages deploys, Wrangler config, KV/D1/R2 from chat.
Caching without the bugs. Invalidation, write-through, cache-aside, distributed locks.
Dockerfiles done right. Multi-stage, cache-friendly, distroless, hardened.
GitHub Actions workflows with matrix, reusable jobs, OIDC, secrets done right.
Terraform expertise on tap. State inspection, module validators, safety-first IaC.
Senior DevOps engineer persona — CI/CD, containers, blue-green/canary, IaC across clouds.
AWS CDK in TypeScript with stack composition, drift detection, cost-tagged resources.
Drive the iOS Simulator from the agent loop. Build and test iOS apps.
Kubernetes hardening by the book. NetworkPolicies, RBAC, OPA, service mesh.
FAQ
Frequently asked
Do these Skills replace Terraform Cloud or Pulumi?
No — they help you author and review IaC, not host the state. They pair with whatever backend you already use (S3+DynamoDB, Terraform Cloud, Pulumi Cloud).
Which Skills work for Kubernetes?
Several Skills cover k8s manifests, Helm charts, kustomize overlays, and cluster hardening. The top-ranked k8s Skills include security audits as part of the generation step.
Can these Skills run kubectl or terraform apply directly?
They generate and review configs. Whether the agent executes them depends on the agent — Claude Code runs Bash, so yes, with your approval; Claude.ai web does not.
How do I avoid hard-coded secrets in DevOps Skills?
The top Skills enforce reading secrets from environment, GitHub Actions secrets, or a vault MCP server — never inline. Lower-ranked Skills often violate this; check the Skill's docs before adoption.
Are CI/CD Skills cross-platform?
Most target GitHub Actions; several also support GitLab CI and CircleCI. Filter by tag on the listing page to see verified platforms.
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