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Platform Agent Swarm Orchestrator — coordinates work across all specialized agents, manages task routing, runs daily standups, and ensures accountability across Kubernetes and OpenShift platform operations.

GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline integration for Kubernetes and OpenShift. Use this skill when: (1) Setting up ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps deployment (2) Creating CI/CD pipelines for K8s workloads (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton) (3) Implementing progressive delivery (Canary, Blue-Green, A/B testing) (4) Configuring Kustomize overlays for multi-environment deployments (5) Creating Helm charts or managing Helm releases (6) Setting up image automation and promotion workflows (7) Implementing policy-as-code (Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper) (8) Secret management in GitOps (Sealed Secrets, External Secrets, SOPS) (9) Multi-cluster GitOps configurations (10) OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) and GitOps Operator setup

Create, validate, and manage Kubernetes and OpenShift YAML manifests. Use this skill when: (1) Creating any K8s/OCP resources: Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs, Pods (2) Creating networking resources: Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies, OCP Routes (3) Creating config/storage: ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, PVs, StorageClasses (4) Creating RBAC: ServiceAccounts, Roles, RoleBindings, ClusterRoles, ClusterRoleBindings (5) Creating OCP-specific: DeploymentConfigs, BuildConfigs, ImageStreams, SCCs, Templates (6) Validating or reviewing existing manifests for best practices (7) Converting between K8s and OCP resource types (8) Generating Helm charts or Kustomize overlays

Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster operations, maintenance, and lifecycle management. Use this skill when: (1) Performing cluster upgrades (K8s, OCP, EKS, GKE, AKS) (2) Backup and disaster recovery (etcd, Velero, cluster state) (3) Node management: drain, cordon, scaling, replacement (4) Capacity planning and cluster scaling (5) Certificate rotation and management (6) etcd maintenance and health checks (7) Resource quota and limit range management (8) Namespace lifecycle management (9) Cluster migration and workload portability (10) Monitoring and alerting configuration (11) Log aggregation setup (12) Cost optimization and resource rightsizing

Kubernetes and OpenShift security assessment, hardening, and compliance. Use this skill when: (1) Auditing cluster or workload security posture (2) Implementing Pod Security Standards/Admission (3) Configuring RBAC roles and permissions (4) Setting up NetworkPolicies for zero-trust (5) Managing Secrets securely (encryption, external secrets) (6) Scanning images for vulnerabilities (7) Implementing OCP SecurityContextConstraints (8) Compliance checking (CIS benchmarks, SOC2, PCI-DSS) (9) Security incident investigation (10) Hardening cluster components

Comprehensive Kubernetes and OpenShift cluster health analysis and troubleshooting based on Popeye's issue detection patterns. Use this skill when: (1) Proactive cluster health assessment and security analysis (2) Analyzing pod/container logs for errors or issues (3) Interpreting cluster events (kubectl get events) (4) Debugging pod failures: CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackOff, OOMKilled, etc. (5) Diagnosing networking issues: DNS, Service connectivity, Ingress/Route problems (6) Investigating storage issues: PVC pending, mount failures (7) Analyzing node problems: NotReady, resource pressure, taints (8) Troubleshooting OCP-specific issues: SCCs, Routes, Operators, Builds (9) Performance analysis and resource optimization (10) Security vulnerability assessment and RBAC validation (11) Configuration best practices validation (12) Reliability and high availability analysis

OpenShift-specific cluster health analysis and troubleshooting based on Popeye's issue detection patterns. Use this skill when: (1) Analyzing OpenShift cluster operators and platform health (2) Troubleshooting Security Context Constraints (SCC) violations (3) Diagnosing BuildConfig, ImageStream, and Route issues (4) Analyzing Projects, Quotas, and resource management (5) Validating OpenShift-specific security configurations (6) Monitoring OpenShift networking (Routes, Routers, OVNKubernetes) (7) OpenShift performance and reliability analysis (8) ARO/ROSA managed service troubleshooting (9) OpenShift CI/CD pipeline issues (Builds, Deployments) (10) Operator Lifecycle Manager and Operator issues