Infrastructure

Skill: Set Up Cloud Infrastructure

Trigger

When the user needs to create or modify cloud resources.

Steps

Step 1: Define Requirements

• [ ] What resources are needed?
• [ ] Which environment? (dev, staging, production)
• [ ] Performance requirements?
• [ ] Budget constraints?
• [ ] Security requirements?

Step 2: Design Architecture

• [ ] Draw architecture diagram (Mermaid)
• [ ] Define networking (VPC, subnets, security groups)
• [ ] Plan compute resources (size, scaling)
• [ ] Plan storage (database, file storage, cache)
• [ ] Plan monitoring and alerting

Step 3: Write IaC

• [ ] Create Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation templates
• [ ] Use modules for reusable components
• [ ] Parameterize environment-specific values
• [ ] Follow naming conventions: {project}-{env}-{resource}
• [ ] Tag all resources

Step 4: Security

• [ ] Enable encryption at rest
• [ ] Enable encryption in transit
• [ ] Configure IAM with least privilege
• [ ] Set up VPC and security groups
• [ ] Enable audit logging

Step 5: Deploy

• [ ] Plan: Review changes before applying
• [ ] Apply to dev first
• [ ] Verify in dev
• [ ] Promote to staging
• [ ] Verify in staging
• [ ] Promote to production

Step 6: Monitor

• [ ] Set up health checks
• [ ] Configure alert rules
• [ ] Create dashboards
• [ ] Set up cost alerts

If a step fails

| Step | Failure | Recovery | |------|---------|----------| | Step 5 | Deploy to dev/staging fails | Run terraform destroy or equivalent; fix IaC; re-apply; never proceed to prod until dev/staging succeeds | | Step 5 | Deploy to production fails | Rollback via IaC (revert and apply previous state); investigate; fix in dev; re-test full pipeline | | Step 5 | Partial apply (some resources created) | Document what was created; run destroy/rollback for failed resources; fix and retry |

Never apply infrastructure changes to production without explicit user confirmation. Require confirmation before terraform apply or equivalent on prod.

Completion

Infrastructure provisioned, secured, monitored, and documented.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: girijashankarj
• Source: girijashankarj/cursor-handbook
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.