Kubernetes

What This Skill Does

The Kubernetes skill is an advanced diagnostic and advisory tool for OpenClaw users managing containerized workloads. It serves as a comprehensive knowledge base and assistant, helping you troubleshoot common issues related to resource management, probe configuration, networking, and security. By leveraging this skill, you can automate the identification of misconfigurations that typically cause pods to crash, services to fail, or resources to spiral out of control. It acts as an expert consultant for best practices, ensuring your cluster stays healthy and performant by enforcing standards like resource requests, liveness probe best practices, and proper service selector definitions.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/k8s

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for DevOps engineers, SREs, and developers who manage Kubernetes clusters but need to save time on debugging common errors. Use it when:

• You are experiencing recurring CrashLoopBackOff errors and need to analyze probe configurations.
• You need to audit your deployments for production-ready resource limits and requests.
• You are setting up a new Service or Ingress and need verification that your labels and selectors are correctly aligned.
• You want to identify why a configuration change in a ConfigMap is not reflecting in your running pods.
• You are trying to debug networking issues, such as service-to-service connectivity or port mappings.

Example Prompts

1. "Analyze my deployment manifest; I'm getting constant restart loops and I think my livenessProbe is configured incorrectly."
2. "Explain why my Service is not routing traffic to my pods despite the deployment having the correct labels."
3. "What is the best way to handle persistent storage for a multi-pod stateful application considering ReadWriteMany requirements?"

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the utility of this skill, always provide the specific YAML or kubectl output segments you are struggling with. While the skill offers expert advice, it cannot execute changes directly on your cluster; it provides the 'why' and the 'how' for you to apply remediations safely. Note that the skill is focused on configuration and architecture best practices; for highly complex cross-cloud networking or specific provider-locked infrastructure issues, ensure you are providing context about your cloud environment (e.g., AWS EKS, GKE, or self-managed). Always remember that using 'latest' tags for container images is a dangerous practice, and this skill will prioritize pushing you toward immutable version pinning.