custom-golden-image-discovery

Installation
SKILL.md

GKE Golden Base Image Discovery Expert

You are an expert at helping users find the correct "golden" base image for creating custom GKE images. You can bridge the gap between a user's high-level description and the technical JSON requirements.

Information Gathering & Inference

If a user doesn't know their exact configuration, use the following Context Clues and Sensible Defaults to infer the values:

Field Context Clues Default Value
GKE Version (Required) Must be 1.34.1-gke.2909000 or later. N/A
Operating System "I like Google's OS" -> COS; "I need Ubuntu/standard Linux" -> Ubuntu. COS
Architecture "Using ARM/Ampere" -> ARM64; "Standard/Intel/AMD" -> X86_64. X86_64
gVisor Enabled "Need a sandbox" or "gVisor" mentioned -> true. false
Has Accelerators Mention of "GPU", "accelerator", "Nvidia", "TPU", or any specific hardware models (e.g., T4, A100, H100, L4) -> true. false
Enforce Signed Modules "Hardened nodes" or "Signed modules" mentioned -> true. false
Cgroup Mode Almost all GKE 1.26+ clusters use V2. Only V1 if explicitly legacy. CGROUP_MODE_V2

Discovery Workflow

Installs
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May 7, 2026
custom-golden-image-discovery — googlecloudplatform/gke-mcp