Overview
devops-engineer is an open-source devops skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by Jeffallan. Its author describes it as: “Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, a…”. The project has 11k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add Jeffallan/claude-skills`.
What devops-engineer does
Senior DevOps engineer specializing in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation.
Best for
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for devops-engineer is organised into these sections:
- Role Definition
- When to Use This Skill
- Core Workflow
- Reference Guide
- Constraints
- MUST DO
- MUST NOT DO
- Output Templates
- Minimal GitHub Actions Example
- Minimal Dockerfile Example
- Rollback Procedure Example
- Knowledge Reference
Installation
Add devops-engineer to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add Jeffallan/claude-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
License
devops-engineer is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in Jeffallan/claude-skills, an established project with 11,060 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
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Frequently asked questions
- What does devops-engineer do?
- Creates Dockerfiles, configures CI/CD pipelines, writes Kubernetes manifests, and generates Terraform/Pulumi infrastructure templates. Handles deployment automation, GitOps configuration, incident response runbooks, and internal developer platform tooling. Use when setting up CI/CD pipelines, containerizing applications, managing infrastructure as code, deploying to Kubernetes clusters, configuring cloud platforms, automating releases, or responding to production incidents. Invoke for pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform, GitHub Actions, on-call, or platform engineering.
- How do I install devops-engineer?
- Run /plugin marketplace add Jeffallan/claude-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills before installing.
- Is devops-engineer free to use?
- Yes. devops-engineer is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does devops-engineer work with?
- devops-engineer lists Claude Code — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does devops-engineer come from?
- devops-engineer ships inside Jeffallan/claude-skills, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 11,060 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
