Featured in Pulumi Blog: "The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps"

[Jeffallan]

February 9, 2026

Engin Diri (@dirien) from Pulumi featured claude-skills in his article The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps.

Skills highlighted:

Targeted skills:

• monitoring-expert — Structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog
• kubernetes-specialist — Production-ready K8s configurations with security contexts, resource limits, and pod disruption budgets

Day-to-day skills:

• devops-engineer — Senior DevOps engineer persona covering CI/CD pipelines, container management, deployment strategies (blue-green, canary), and infrastructure as code across AWS, GCP, and Azure
• sre-engineer — SLO/SLI definitions, error budget calculations, golden signal dashboards, Prometheus/Grafana configs, and remediation runbooks

Notable quotes:

"The monitoring-expert skill knows Prometheus, Grafana, and DataDog... deploying a static website with these skills installed looks different from vanilla Claude. Instead of just creating the S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution, Claude asked about error rate thresholds before writing any code."

"The kubernetes-specialist focuses on configurations that production deployments actually need... security contexts, resource limits, and pod disruption budgets."

"The devops-engineer skill gives Claude a senior DevOps engineer persona... It enforces constraints I care about: no deploying to production without approval, no secrets in code, no unversioned container images."

"The sre-engineer skill focuses on reliability: SLO/SLI definitions, error budget calculations, golden signal dashboards, and toil reduction through automation... If you run production systems and want Claude to think about error budgets instead of just uptime, this is the skill."

Read the full article:

The Claude Skills I Actually Use for DevOps

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Thanks Engin for the thoughtful writeup!