Kubernetes

Kubernetes Skill

Production Kubernetes management — from Helm chart authoring to GitOps with ArgoCD and advanced deployment strategies.

RULE: Always show manifests/plan before applying. Never run kubectl apply without showing what changes.

> 🚧 Status: Stub — implementation pending > > This reference skill has the structure but the snippet content is still being filled in > (you'll see `` placeholders below). It activates and tells Claude the topic > exists, but won't yield deep snippets yet. > > Want to help? Pick any TODO, write the snippet, open a PR. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../CONTRIBUTING.md). > Each contribution moves the skill closer to "Ready" status.

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Capabilities

Helm Chart Creation & Management

ArgoCD Setup & GitOps Workflow

Ingress Controllers (nginx)

ConfigMaps & Secrets

HPA Autoscaling

Blue/Green Deployments

Kubernetes Debugging

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Common Commands

# Context management
kubectl config get-contexts
kubectl config use-context [context]

# Debug a failing pod
kubectl describe pod [pod] -n [ns]
kubectl logs [pod] -n [ns] --previous
kubectl exec -it [pod] -n [ns] -- /bin/sh

# Resource pressure
kubectl top nodes
kubectl top pods -n [ns] --sort-by=memory

# Helm
helm list -A                          # all releases
helm history [release] -n [ns]        # rollback history
helm rollback [release] [revision]    # rollback
helm diff upgrade [release] [chart]   # preview changes (requires helm-diff)

# ArgoCD
argocd app list
argocd app sync [app]
argocd app rollback [app] [revision]

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Helm Chart Stub

helm/[app]/
├── Chart.yaml
├── values.yaml
├── values-dev.yaml
├── values-prod.yaml
└── templates/
    ├── _helpers.tpl
    ├── deployment.yaml
    ├── service.yaml
    ├── ingress.yaml
    ├── hpa.yaml
    ├── configmap.yaml
    ├── serviceaccount.yaml
    └── NOTES.txt

Source & license

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

• Author: veekunth217
• Source: veekunth217/claude-scaffold-skill
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://github.com/veekunth217/claude-scaffold-skill

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