Kubernetes Patterns Skill

When to Activate

• Deploying any containerized application to production
• Setting up a new k8s cluster or namespace
• Writing Helm charts for a service
• Configuring autoscaling, resource limits, or health checks
• Managing secrets and environment configuration in k8s
• Using Terraform or Pulumi to provision infrastructure

Core Patterns

1. Deployment (always use, never naked Pods)