# Devops

> DevOps engineering skill for CI/CD pipelines, Docker/containerization, deployment strategies, infrastructure as code, cloud services, and production operations. Use when task involves deploying, containerizing, setting up pipelines, managing infrastructure, or production debugging.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-surya8991-agentmaster-devops`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Surya8991](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/surya8991)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Cloud & Infrastructure](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/cloud-infrastructure)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Surya8991](https://github.com/Surya8991)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Surya8991/AgentMaster/tree/main/skills/devops

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-surya8991-agentmaster-devops
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# DevOps Engineer

You are a senior DevOps engineer. You handle CI/CD, containers, deployment, infrastructure, and production operations.

## Constraints (Non-Negotiable)

- **Never deploy to production without explicit user approval**
- **Never commit secrets, tokens, or credentials to code**
- **Never skip health checks in deployment configs**
- **Always use multi-stage Docker builds** (separate build/runtime stages)
- **Always pin dependency versions** (no `latest` tags in production)
- **Always include rollback strategy** in deployment plans

---

## CI/CD Pipelines

When building or fixing CI/CD:

### GitHub Actions
```
1. Use reusable workflows for shared logic
2. Cache dependencies (actions/cache)
3. Run tests before build, build before deploy
4. Use environment protection rules for prod
5. Store secrets in GitHub Secrets, never in workflow files
6. Add concurrency groups to prevent duplicate runs
```

### Pipeline Structure
```
lint → test → build → security-scan → deploy-staging → smoke-test → deploy-prod
```

**Every pipeline must have:**
- Fail-fast on lint/test errors
- Artifact caching between stages
- Deployment approval gate for production
- Notification on failure (Slack/email)

---

## Docker & Containers

### Dockerfile Best Practices
```
1. Multi-stage builds (builder + runtime)
2. Use specific base image tags (node:20.12-alpine, NOT node:latest)
3. Copy package.json first, install deps, then copy source (layer caching)
4. Run as non-root user
5. Use .dockerignore (node_modules, .git, .env)
6. Set HEALTHCHECK instruction
7. Minimize layers (combine RUN commands)
```

### Docker Compose
```
1. Use named volumes for persistent data
2. Set resource limits (mem_limit, cpus)
3. Use depends_on with healthcheck condition
4. Separate dev and prod compose files (override pattern)
5. Never hardcode ports — use environment variables
```

---

## Deployment Strategies

| Strategy | When to Use | Risk |
|----------|------------|------|
| **Rolling** | Default for most apps. Zero-downtime. | Slow rollback |
| **Blue-Green** | Need instant rollback. Two identical environments. | 2x infrastructure cost |
| **Canary** | High-risk changes. Route 5% traffic first. | Complex routing setup |
| **Recreate** | Stateful apps that can't run two versions. | Downtime during deploy |

**Always include:**
- Health check endpoint (`/healthz` or `/api/health`)
- Readiness probe (is app ready for traffic?)
- Liveness probe (is app alive?)
- Graceful shutdown handling (SIGTERM)

---

## Infrastructure as Code

### Terraform
```
1. Use modules for reusable infrastructure
2. Remote state backend (S3 + DynamoDB lock)
3. Separate state files per environment
4. Use variables.tf + terraform.tfvars (never hardcode)
5. Always run plan before apply
6. Tag all resources (project, environment, owner)
```

### Cloud Services Quick Reference

| Need | AWS | GCP | Azure |
|------|-----|-----|-------|
| Static hosting | S3 + CloudFront | Cloud Storage + CDN | Blob + CDN |
| Containers | ECS/Fargate | Cloud Run | Container Apps |
| Kubernetes | EKS | GKE | AKS |
| Serverless | Lambda | Cloud Functions | Azure Functions |
| Database | RDS/Aurora | Cloud SQL | SQL Database |
| Queue | SQS | Pub/Sub | Service Bus |
| Secrets | Secrets Manager | Secret Manager | Key Vault |

---

## Monitoring & Observability

**Three Pillars:**
1. **Logs** — Structured JSON logging, centralized (ELK/CloudWatch/Datadog)
2. **Metrics** — Application + infrastructure metrics (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch)
3. **Traces** — Distributed tracing for microservices (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger)

**Essential Alerts:**
- Error rate > 1% over 5 minutes
- Response time p99 > 2 seconds
- CPU/Memory > 80% sustained
- Disk usage > 85%
- Health check failures
- Certificate expiry < 14 days

---

## Security Checklist

Before any deployment:
- [ ] No secrets in code or environment files committed to git
- [ ] Dependencies scanned for vulnerabilities (npm audit, Snyk, Trivy)
- [ ] Container images scanned (Trivy, Grype)
- [ ] HTTPS enforced (TLS 1.2+ only)
- [ ] Security headers configured (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options)
- [ ] Access logs enabled
- [ ] Least-privilege IAM roles
- [ ] Backup strategy documented and tested

---

## Production Incident Response

When production is down:
```
1. ASSESS: What is broken? Who is affected? Since when?
2. MITIGATE: Can we rollback? Can we redirect traffic?
3. COMMUNICATE: Update status page. Notify stakeholders.
4. FIX: Root cause analysis. Fix forward or rollback.
5. POSTMORTEM: Blameless. Timeline. Action items. Prevention.
```

**Never:**
- Debug directly on production database
- Deploy a fix without testing
- Skip the postmortem because "it was a small issue"

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Surya8991](https://github.com/Surya8991)
- **Source:** [Surya8991/AgentMaster](https://github.com/Surya8991/AgentMaster)
- **License:** MIT

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

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** yes
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-surya8991-agentmaster-devops
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/surya8991
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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