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20 GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas alternatives

GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas: Google's official GKE skill — when Autopilot beats Standard, Workload Identity instead of JSON keys, Autopilot's 250m CPU rounding, and private-cluster flags. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Google Cloud and Kubernetes, ranked by how much they have in common with GKE Basics & Critical Gotchas.

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  1. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for driving the gcloud CLI safely from an agent: validate every command against its own help text, cap the output, and refuse the operations that should never run unattended.

    Also: Google Cloud

  2. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official AKS planning skill: separates the Day-0 decisions you cannot undo (networking, API server) from the Day-1 features you can switch on later.

    Also: Kubernetes

  3. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Alloy skill: write one collector config that carries metrics, logs, traces and profiles, validate it locally, and prove samples are actually leaving the box.

    Also: Kubernetes

  4. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Tempo skill: stand up a tracing backend that needs nothing but object storage, then write TraceQL that finds the slow span instead of scrolling for it.

    Also: Kubernetes

  5. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Loki skill: write LogQL that returns rows instead of timeouts, ship logs through Alloy, and reason about a store that indexes labels rather than log text.

    Also: Kubernetes

  6. by AWS Labs

    Read-only diagnostics for cluster-wide SageMaker HyperPod failures on EKS or Slurm — CloudFormation errors, EFA health checks, lifecycle scripts, capacity, dangling nodes and autoscaler conflicts.

    Also: Kubernetes

  7. by Google Cloud

    Google's official Spanner skill: provision instances, design primary keys that do not hotspot, write SQL and client-library code, and diagnose slow queries — with DDL and DML gated behind your approval.

    Also: Google Cloud

  8. by NVIDIA

    NVIDIA's official skill for bringing up Dynamo inference routing — pick a router mode, enable KV-aware routing, and smoke-test the frontend endpoint before claiming anything works.

    Also: Kubernetes

  9. by Google

    Google's official Well-Architected Framework skill for the security pillar — turns an architecture review into a structured interview, gap analysis and prioritised recommendations.

    Also: Google Cloud

  10. by Google

    Google's official Cloud SQL skill — create and connect MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances with the right gcloud commands, Auth Proxy setup, HA and backup model.

    Also: Google Cloud

  11. by Google

    Google's official AlloyDB for PostgreSQL skill — cluster and instance lifecycle from gcloud, plus hard rules on private connectivity, IAM database auth and backup behaviour.

    Also: Google Cloud

  12. by .NET Foundation

    The .NET team's official skill for capturing crash dumps from CoreCLR and NativeAOT apps on Linux, macOS, Windows and inside containers — collection only, no analysis.

    Also: Kubernetes

  13. by Google

    Google's official Cloud Run skill — deploy services, jobs and worker pools correctly, with the IAM roles, port contract and gotchas that break first deployments.

    Also: Google Cloud

  14. by NVIDIA

    Deploy, configure and troubleshoot the NVIDIA RAG Blueprint from your agent — Docker Compose, Helm or library, with feature toggles for VLM, guardrails and agentic RAG.

    Also: Kubernetes

  15. by Datadog

    Install, instrument and analyse Datadog APM from an agent — Kubernetes and Linux Single-Step Instrumentation, service remapping, trace search and service maps.

    Also: Kubernetes

  16. by Google

    Google's official BigQuery skill — datasets, tables, jobs and SQL from the bq CLI, plus the reference set for IAM, Terraform, change history and continuous queries.

    Also: Google Cloud

  17. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for calling Gemini on Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) with the Gen AI SDK — Python, JS/TS, Go, Java and C#, plus tools, multimodal input and the Live API.

    Also: Google Cloud

  18. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for getting Google Cloud authentication right — human identities, service accounts, Application Default Credentials, and the failure modes agents usually hit.

    Also: Google Cloud

  19. by Railway

    Railway's official agent skill: create projects, provision databases and buckets, deploy, manage variables and domains, and read build failures back — from the CLI, API or MCP server.

    Also in DevOps & Infrastructure

  20. by Amazon Web Services

    Official AWS skill for authoring, deploying and debugging CDK stacks — construct patterns, bootstrap, drift, resource import and the CloudFormation errors that trap people.

    Also in DevOps & Infrastructure