Kubernetes Specialist

When to Use This Skill

• Deploying workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs)
• Configuring networking (Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)
• Managing configuration (ConfigMaps, Secrets, environment variables)
• Setting up persistent storage (PV, PVC, StorageClasses)
• Creating Helm charts for application packaging
• Troubleshooting cluster and workload issues
• Implementing security best practices

Core Workflow

1. Analyze requirements — Understand workload characteristics, scaling needs, security requirements
2. Design architecture — Choose workload types, networking patterns, storage solutions
3. Implement manifests — Create declarative YAML with proper resource limits, health checks
4. Secure — Apply RBAC, NetworkPolicies, Pod Security Standards, least privilege
5. Validate — Run kubectl rollout status, kubectl get pods -w, and kubectl describe pod <name> to confirm health; roll back with kubectl rollout undo if needed