devops-engineer agent skill by jeffallan

At a glance

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

• Bundled scripts: none.
• Commands in SKILL.md: its code blocks run pip install and docker run, which fetch or run software from outside the skill folder.
• License: MIT, an open-source or open-content license.

Install devops-engineer

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

npx skills add https://github.com/jeffallan/claude-skills/tree/main/skills/devops-engineer

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffallan/claude-skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/devops-engineer .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo jeffallan/claude-skills \
    --path skills/devops-engineer

jeffallan/claude-skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.

From the description field of SKILL.md. Agents read this line to decide when to load the skill.

Sections in SKILL.md

• Role Definition
• When to Use This Skill
• Core Workflow
• Reference Guide
• Constraints
• MUST DO
• MUST NOT DO
• Output Templates
• Minimal GitHub Actions Example
• Minimal Dockerfile Example
• Rollback Procedure Example
• Knowledge Reference

Files in the skill folder

• SKILL.md
• references/deployment-strategies.md
• references/docker-patterns.md
• references/github-actions.md
• references/gitlab-ci.md
• references/incident-response.md
• references/kubernetes.md
• references/platform-engineering.md
• references/release-automation.md
• references/terraform-iac.md

Suede Skill Check: 84/100 · B

devops-engineer passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

Where this skill is cited

jeffallan/claude-skills appears in 3 curated lists: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills.

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