DevOps Skills for Claude Code

A comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for DevOps engineers, providing generators and validators for infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and observability tooling.

What are Claude Code Skills?

Skills are reusable prompt templates that help Claude provide expert guidance on specific topics. When you invoke a skill, Claude assumes the role of an expert in that domain and provides detailed, actionable advice with automatic validation.

Available Skills (31 skills)

Ansible (2 skills)

Azure Pipelines (2 skills)

Bash Scripts (2 skills)

Docker (2 skills)

Fluent Bit (2 skills)

GitHub Actions (2 skills)

GitLab CI (2 skills)

Helm (2 skills)

Jenkins (2 skills)

Kubernetes (3 skills)

Logging & Observability (3 skills)

Makefiles (2 skills)

PromQL (1 skill)

Terraform (2 skills)

Terragrunt (2 skills)

Installation

From Plugin Marketplace (Recommended)

Add this repository as a Claude Code plugin marketplace and install the skills:

# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills

# Install the plugin
/plugin install devops-skills@akin-ozer

Or browse available plugins interactively with /plugin.

Team Installation

To automatically install for your team, add to your project's .claude/settings.json:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "devops-skills": {
      "source": {
        "source": "github",
        "repo": "akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills"
      }
    }
  }
}

When team members trust the repository folder, Claude Code automatically installs the marketplace.

Now available for Codex desktop 🎉

$skill-installer install https://github.com/akin-ozer/cc-devops-skills/tree/main/devops-skills-plugin/skills

How to Use

Invoking a Skill

Simply ask Claude to use a skill by name:

Use the dockerfile-generator skill to create a Dockerfile for my Node.js application

Or ask Claude to validate an existing file:

Validate my terraform configuration using the terraform-validator skill

Generator + Validator Workflow

Most skills come in pairs (generator + validator). When you use a generator skill, it automatically validates the output:

1. Generator creates the resource following best practices
2. Validator checks for syntax errors, security issues, and best practices
3. Generator fixes any validation errors
4. Final output is production-ready and validated

Skill Categories

By Function

• Generators: Create new resources from scratch following best practices
• Validators: Validate, lint, and secure existing resources
• Debug/Troubleshooting: Diagnose and fix issues in running systems

By Technology Area

Infrastructure as Code
├── Terraform (generator, validator)
├── Terragrunt (generator, validator)
└── Ansible (generator, validator)

Container & Orchestration
├── Dockerfile (generator, validator)
├── Kubernetes (generator, validator, debug)
└── Helm (generator, validator)

CI/CD Pipelines
├── GitHub Actions (generator, validator)
├── GitLab CI (generator, validator)
├── Jenkins (generator, validator)
└── Azure Pipelines (generator, validator)

Observability
├── PromQL (generator, validator)
├── LogQL (generator)
├── Fluent Bit (generator, validator)
└── Loki Config (generator)

Build & Scripting
├── Makefile (generator, validator)
└── Bash Script (generator, validator)

By Experience Level

Key Features

Automatic Validation

All generator skills automatically validate their output using the corresponding validator skill, ensuring production-ready results.

Version-Aware Documentation

Skills automatically fetch up-to-date documentation for:

• Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) in Kubernetes
• Terraform providers and modules
• Ansible collections and modules
• CI/CD actions and plugins

Best Practices Enforcement

Each skill enforces domain-specific best practices:

• Security hardening
• Resource optimization
• Naming conventions
• Idempotency guarantees

Skill Structure

Each skill in .claude/skills/ contains:

skill-name/
├── SKILL.md           # Main skill prompt with instructions
├── references/        # Best practices and troubleshooting guides
├── scripts/           # Helper scripts for validation
├── assets/            # Templates and configuration files
└── test/              # Test files for validation

Contributing

These skills are designed to evolve with DevOps best practices. Contributions welcome:

• Add new skills for emerging technologies
• Update existing skills with new best practices
• Improve validation scripts and references
• Add test cases for better coverage

Best Practices for Using Skills

1. Be specific: Provide context about your environment, requirements, and constraints
2. Share files: Upload relevant configuration files for Claude to review
3. Ask follow-ups: Skills are starting points - ask for clarification or alternatives
4. Combine skills: Use generators and validators together for best results
5. Iterate: Refine the output by providing feedback

Requirements

MCP Servers (Recommended)

Skills leverage MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for enhanced functionality:

Context7 enables skills to automatically look up version-aware documentation for custom resources, ensuring generated configurations are accurate and up-to-date.

CLI Tools by Skill

Infrastructure as Code

Container & Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Scripting & Build

Observability

Optional Tools

These tools provide additional functionality but are not strictly required:

Python Requirements

Many validation scripts require Python:

• Python 3.8+ - Required for most validation scripts
• Python 3.9+ - Required for Checkov

Quick Install (macOS with Homebrew)

# Core tools
brew install terraform tflint terragrunt helm kubeconform kubectl yamllint
brew install hadolint actionlint act shellcheck prometheus

# Python tools (use pipx for isolation)
pipx install ansible-lint checkov yamllint

# Optional
brew install yq fluent-bit
helm plugin install https://github.com/databus23/helm-diff

Quick Install (Linux)

# Python tools
pip install ansible-lint checkov yamllint

# Other tools - see individual tool documentation for Linux installation
# Most tools provide binary releases on GitHub

License

Apache 2.0