🛠️ Infrastructure, SRE & Incident Operations
Production reliability workflows for Kubernetes, incidents, observability, backups, deploy safety, infrastructure drift, alerts, and runbook-driven debugging.
Who this is for
- SREs, platform engineers, DevOps leads, and infrastructure operators responsible for production reliability.
- Teams that need Kubernetes, observability, backup, deployment, and incident response workflows joined into one operating shelf.
Jobs covered
- Investigate production incidents across Kubernetes, logs, cloud signals, and observability backends.
- Review and test infrastructure changes before deploys, Helm releases, Terraform diffs, or cluster manifests cause outages.
- Run backup, restore, retention, and alert routing workflows with operator-visible evidence.
- Keep cluster operations, dashboards, and runbooks close enough for on-call use.
Workflow Stacks
- Kubernetes incident triage: Open cluster context → tail affected pod logs → inspect crash signals → correlate observability → capture runbook notes
- Safe infrastructure change: Review Terraform or Helm diff → lint automation → run cluster tests → sync GitOps target → watch rollout health
- Backup and recovery readiness: Schedule backups → verify retention → test restore path → route failure alerts → record evidence
Curated Skills (30)
Adds a Kubernetes-native agent control plane for cluster automation experiments that still need operator boundaries.
Lets operators inspect and act on Kubernetes resources through MCP instead of brittle one-off kubectl prompts.
Covers cluster-level MCP operations for routine checks, triage, and controlled remediation.
Extends the cluster-ops workflow to Kubernetes and OpenShift environments where enterprise platform teams need consistent runbooks.
Pulls Kubernetes and cloud signals into an incident investigation loop instead of leaving responders to correlate dashboards manually.
Gives responders a fast multi-pod log tailing step during label-scoped outages.
Turns CrashLoopBackOff and pod failure evidence into a focused diagnosis packet for responders.
Provides a fast terminal cockpit for cluster inspection during normal operations and incidents.
Checks Kubernetes workload readiness and policy hygiene before manifest mistakes reach production.
Prevents configuration automation failures by linting playbooks before they run against infrastructure.
Automates GitOps sync checks and actions for teams running ArgoCD-backed production deploys.
Makes Helm upgrades reviewable by surfacing chart diffs before cluster changes land.
Coordinates many Helm releases from a single desired state so platform drift is visible before apply.
Runs declarative Kubernetes tests before operator or manifest changes become incident fuel.
Turns Terraform plan output into an infrastructure-review artifact before risky changes merge.
Detects drift between declared Terraform state and real infrastructure before incidents or surprise costs appear.
Covers backup, restore, retention, and failure notification as an auditable runbook rather than an ad hoc database chore.
Centralizes scheduled backups and retention across databases for smaller platform teams.
Adds encrypted file and repository backup workflows for production recovery planning.
Gives infrastructure teams immediate host and service telemetry for alerting and triage.
Provides logs, metrics, and traces for production reliability investigations without a proprietary-only observability stack.
Adds a cloud-native observability backend for logs, metrics, traces, and incident search.
Routes legacy SMTP-only alerts into modern notification channels so incidents reach the right responders.
Connects Datadog signals into agent workflows for incident context, monitor review, and dashboard triage.
Adds run-level tracing for agent systems that SRE teams need to debug after failures or noisy automation.
Connects LLM and agent traces to OpenTelemetry-style incident investigation workflows.
Adds OpenTelemetry-style traces, metrics, and evaluations for production LLM and agent applications that SRE teams need to debug and monitor.
Profiles CPU, GPU, and memory hotspots in Python agent services, tool servers, or retrieval pipelines before reliability tuning.
Adds monitoring and evaluation coverage for production LLM workflows that need regression signals during incidents.
Records system-level behavior from agent commands during incidents or postmortems, giving SRE teams evidence beyond agent transcripts.
| Skill | What it does here | Persona | Install | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deploy Kubernetes-native agents with kagent | Adds a Kubernetes-native agent control plane for cluster automation experiments that still need operator boundaries. | Platform engineer / SRE lead | High | 2.9k |
| Control Kubernetes infrastructure through natural-language MCP workflows | Lets operators inspect and act on Kubernetes resources through MCP instead of brittle one-off kubectl prompts. | SRE / platform operator | High | 898 |
| Run Kubernetes cluster operations through MCP | Covers cluster-level MCP operations for routine checks, triage, and controlled remediation. | Kubernetes operator | High | 1.4k |
| Operate Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters through MCP | Extends the cluster-ops workflow to Kubernetes and OpenShift environments where enterprise platform teams need consistent runbooks. | Platform engineer / OpenShift admin | High | 1.6k |
| Investigate production incidents across Kubernetes and cloud signals with HolmesGPT | Pulls Kubernetes and cloud signals into an incident investigation loop instead of leaving responders to correlate dashboards manually. | Incident commander / SRE | Medium | 2.3k |
| Tail multi-pod Kubernetes logs by label during incidents with Stern | Gives responders a fast multi-pod log tailing step during label-scoped outages. | On-call engineer | Low | 4.6k |
| Kubernetes Pod Crash Diagnostics | Turns CrashLoopBackOff and pod failure evidence into a focused diagnosis packet for responders. | Kubernetes support engineer | Medium | 121.7k |
| K9s Kubernetes Terminal Dashboard | Provides a fast terminal cockpit for cluster inspection during normal operations and incidents. | SRE / cluster operator | Low | 33.2k |
| Polaris Kubernetes Best Practices Validator | Checks Kubernetes workload readiness and policy hygiene before manifest mistakes reach production. | Platform reliability reviewer | Low | 3.4k |
| Lint Ansible playbooks and roles before automation breaks in prod with ansible-lint | Prevents configuration automation failures by linting playbooks before they run against infrastructure. | DevOps engineer | Low | 3.9k |
| ArgoCD GitOps Sync Automator | Automates GitOps sync checks and actions for teams running ArgoCD-backed production deploys. | Release engineer / platform operator | Medium | 22.5k |
| Helm Chart Diff & Upgrade Manager | Makes Helm upgrades reviewable by surfacing chart diffs before cluster changes land. | Kubernetes release engineer | Medium | 29.7k |
| Plan and apply many Helm releases from one declarative state before cluster changes drift out of sync with Helmfile | Coordinates many Helm releases from a single desired state so platform drift is visible before apply. | Platform engineer | High | 5.1k |
| Run declarative Kubernetes test suites against clusters before operator or manifest changes merge with KUTTL | Runs declarative Kubernetes tests before operator or manifest changes become incident fuel. | Platform QA / SRE | Medium | 804 |
| Terraform Plan Diff Analyzer | Turns Terraform plan output into an infrastructure-review artifact before risky changes merge. | Infrastructure reviewer | Medium | 48.1k |
| Terraform Drift Detector | Detects drift between declared Terraform state and real infrastructure before incidents or surprise costs appear. | Cloud platform engineer | Medium | 48.1k |
| Orchestrate database backup, restore, retention, and failure-notification runbooks through Databasement | Covers backup, restore, retention, and failure notification as an auditable runbook rather than an ad hoc database chore. | Database operator / SRE | Medium | 315 |
| Schedule and retain cross-database backups from one self-hosted control plane with Databasus | Centralizes scheduled backups and retention across databases for smaller platform teams. | Infrastructure operator | Medium | 6.6k |
| Restic Fast Encrypted Backup Program | Adds encrypted file and repository backup workflows for production recovery planning. | SRE / backup owner | Low | 32.9k |
| Netdata Real-Time Infrastructure Monitoring and Alerting | Gives infrastructure teams immediate host and service telemetry for alerting and triage. | SRE / infra operator | Medium | 78.4k |
| SigNoz Open-Source Observability Platform | Provides logs, metrics, and traces for production reliability investigations without a proprietary-only observability stack. | Observability engineer | High | 26.5k |
| OpenObserve Cloud-Native Observability Platform for Logs Metrics and Traces | Adds a cloud-native observability backend for logs, metrics, traces, and incident search. | Observability platform owner | High | 18.5k |
| Convert SMTP-only alerts into routed notification deliveries with Mailrise | Routes legacy SMTP-only alerts into modern notification channels so incidents reach the right responders. | On-call tooling owner | Low | 1.5k |
| Datadog Integration Connector | Connects Datadog signals into agent workflows for incident context, monitor review, and dashboard triage. | SRE / observability engineer | Medium | 791 |
| Trace and debug agent runs with AgentOps | Adds run-level tracing for agent systems that SRE teams need to debug after failures or noisy automation. | SRE / agent platform operator | Medium | 5.6k |
| Trace LLM and agent workflows with OpenLLMetry | Connects LLM and agent traces to OpenTelemetry-style incident investigation workflows. | Observability engineer / platform SRE | Medium | 7.2k |
| Trace and evaluate LLM application behavior with Langtrace | Adds OpenTelemetry-style traces, metrics, and evaluations for production LLM and agent applications that SRE teams need to debug and monitor. | AI platform SRE / observability engineer | Medium | 1.2k |
| Profile Python agent workloads with Scalene | Profiles CPU, GPU, and memory hotspots in Python agent services, tool servers, or retrieval pipelines before reliability tuning. | AI platform SRE / Python performance engineer | Low | 13.5k |
| Evaluate and monitor LLM workflows with Agenta | Adds monitoring and evaluation coverage for production LLM workflows that need regression signals during incidents. | AI platform SRE / reliability owner | Medium | 4.2k |
| Record system-level agent activity with AgentSight | Records system-level behavior from agent commands during incidents or postmortems, giving SRE teams evidence beyond agent transcripts. | SRE / agent platform reliability owner | High | 469 |
Editorial Notes
- This collection crosses Runbooks, Monitoring, CI/CD, Code Quality, Developer Tools, and Integrations because incident work rarely stays inside one category.
- Listed Kubernetes agent picks are included only where they represent a distinct operator workflow not covered by stronger security-reviewed alternatives.
- Avoid autonomous remediation by default; the collection is built around reviewable signals, controlled runbooks, and operator handoff.
- Keep this persona-based for SRE and platform operations; do not turn it into a generic Monitoring or CI/CD category mirror.