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This skill guides you through designing and implementing production-grade Grafana dashboards for comprehensive system observability. Learn to visualize critical metrics, track key performance indicators (KPIs), monitor infrastructure health (using principles like RED/USE), and build actionable alerts using Prometheus data sources. Ideal for DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).

This skill provides comprehensive guidance for optimizing costs within Guidewire Cloud environments. It covers crucial areas such as rightsizing cloud compute instances, optimizing batch process scheduling to off-peak hours, reducing API call expenses through effective caching, and implementing bulk endpoints instead of individual calls. It is essential for cloud architects, DevOps engineers, and development teams managing large-scale insurance SaaS platforms.

Automates helm chart generation, guidance, and validation for advanced DevOps workflows, covering Kubernetes, Terraform, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

Automates guidance and code generation for managing Helm values within advanced DevOps workflows, including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

A comprehensive framework for managing availability and reliability incidents (outages, degradations, failed deploys). It guides the entire lifecycle, from automated severity classification (SEV1-SEV4) and timeline reconstruction to multi-team coordination and structured post-incident review (PIR). Essential for SRE and DevOps teams leading major incident responses.

Automates integrating secrets managers like HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager by producing secure configurations, IAM policies, and deployment guidance so you can manage sensitive credentials in DevOps workflows with best practices.

Automates Istio service mesh configuration guidance for DevOps Advanced users, offering best-practice patterns, production-ready code, validation, and infrastructure-as-code support across Kubernetes, Terraform, and monitoring workflows.

An expert guide for building scalable, cloud-native enterprise applications using the latest Java 21+ features, including Virtual Threads and Pattern Matching. Deep mastery of the Spring Boot 3.x ecosystem, Spring Cloud, and microservices architecture. Covers full development lifecycle, from JVM performance tuning (GraalVM, ZGC) to robust testing (Testcontainers) and secure DevOps practices (Kubernetes, CI/CD).

Automates Jenkins Pipeline introductory tasks within the DevOps Basics domain, offering best-practice patterns, production-ready configs, and validation for foundational CI/CD, version control, and containerization workflows.

Automates json config manager workflows in DevOps basics by offering guidance, industry best practices, production-ready configs, and validation across version control, containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure fundamentals.

Automates Kubernetes ConfigMap handler tasks by providing step-by-step guidance, best practice patterns, and production-ready code as part of an advanced DevOps workflow focused on Terraform, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code.

This specialized, end-to-end workflow guides the deployment of applications onto Kubernetes clusters. It systematically covers all critical production phases, including Docker container preparation, generating K8s manifests, structuring applications with Helm charts, configuring advanced service meshes (like Istio), enforcing robust security policies (RBAC, NetworkPolicy), and implementing full observability and GitOps pipelines for reliable, scalable deployments.