jamesc127

Use this skill whenever the user asks about deploying, managing, monitoring, scaling, load testing, or tearing down the K8ssandra on EKS workshop environment. Trigger on any request involving: EKS cluster creation, eksctl, k8ssandra-operator, K8ssandraCluster, Cassandra pods, easy-cass-mcp, NLB endpoint, Claude Desktop MCP config, NoSQLBench load tests, Cassandra credentials, or workshop teardown. Use kubectl/helm/aws Bash commands for Kubernetes-level operations. Use easy-cass-mcp MCP tools for all Cassandra-specific operations (CQL queries, schema inspection, nodetool equivalents, config recommendations).

Deploy and manage production Apache Cassandra clusters on Kubernetes using the K8ssandra operator. Covers EKS, GKE, and AKS with cloud-specific storage classes, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), backup/restore (Medusa), automated repairs (Reaper), TLS encryption, authentication, and scaling. Use this skill whenever the user wants to deploy Cassandra on Kubernetes, set up a K8ssandra cluster, configure Cassandra backups on K8s, add monitoring to Cassandra on K8s, scale a Cassandra datacenter, or manage any aspect of Cassandra running in a Kubernetes environment.