devops-sre-skills

Identify why an AWS API call is denied and what policy element blocks it.

Diagnose EKS worker nodes in NotReady and determine safe remediation.

Identify the primary drivers of a sudden cloud cost increase and implement safe mitigations.

Diagnose GCP quota errors and identify the quota, scope, and fastest safe mitigation.

Diagnose node-level memory/disk/pid pressure and determine safe mitigations.

Diagnose pods stuck in Pending and identify scheduling constraints.

Diagnose in-cluster DNS resolution failures and isolate root causes.

Investigate rapid SLO burn and identify whether the driver is errors, latency, or availability.

Contain and respond to a suspected credential/secret exposure without increasing blast radius.

Determine why actual infrastructure differs from Terraform state and choose a safe reconciliation path.

Identify why an Argo CD application is OutOfSync and resolve safely.

Execute the initial incident workflow to stabilize, communicate, and delegate.

Triage pods restarting repeatedly and identify the most likely root cause.

Determine why a pod cannot pull its container image and resolve safely.

Identify what changed and where latency increased, using logs/metrics/traces.

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Safely assess and recover from a stuck Terraform state lock.