Diagnose unresponsive GKE GPU or TPU nodes and pods stuck terminating through read-only checks of node status, logs, serial output, and repair history. Receive documented recovery guidance to apply yourself.
- Investigate nodes stuck in NodeStatusUnknown
- Find kernel panic or hardware failure evidence
- Check node auto-repair settings and failures
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Set up an organization-wide Google Cloud foundation with 17 baseline security policies, environment folders and projects, billing links, and centralized audit logging and monitoring. Check the resulting setup against a defined validation checklist.
- Set up the initial foundation for a Google Cloud organization
- Organize production, non-production, and development resources
- Apply baseline security policies across an organization
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Design and implement Google Cloud serverless web apps with separate presentation, application, and data layers. Produces architecture diagrams, Terraform infrastructure code, deployment instructions, and validation scripts for private networking and controlled access between layers.
- Design a serverless web app with separate application layers
- Generate Terraform for private Cloud Run and Cloud SQL connections
- Plan regional data residency requirements
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Inspect Google Cloud Filestore usage and free space, then propose capacity increases or decreases based on configured thresholds and storage tier limits. Apply resizing after confirmation to address low space or reduce excess capacity.
- Check free space across Filestore instances
- Increase capacity when storage is running low
- Reduce excess capacity on eligible storage tiers
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Browse and search files on Google Cloud Filestore, read selected log lines, and inspect permissions and timestamps. Uses a Cloud Run bridge or an existing virtual machine without requiring local NFS client packages or root access.
- Explore the folder structure of a Filestore share
- Find backup files by filename pattern
- Search remote logs for errors and read selected lines
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Check Google Cloud IAM allow policy changes against the last 90 days of access logs. The skill identifies access that could be lost and applies changes only after a successful simulation and user approval.
- Checking access impact before removing a role
- Reviewing allow policy changes across resource scopes
- Applying policy changes after simulation and approval
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Define reliability goals for Google Cloud services and generate Terraform files for Cloud Monitoring SLO alerts. A guided conversation gathers service scope, measurement metrics, targets, and alert conditions, then explains the PromQL queries used to evaluate them.
- Create availability SLO alerts for a service
- Define latency targets and measurement windows
- Configure SLO alerts for App Hub resources
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Helps create and extend Apache Airflow DAGs, workflows that define task order and dependencies, for Managed Service for Apache Airflow. Covers environment checks, version compatibility, coding practices, and local or deployed validation.
- Creating a DAG for a managed Airflow environment
- Adding tasks to an existing workflow
- Checking DAG import errors before deployment
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Diagnoses applications that fail to start or repeatedly crash on GKE, Google's managed Kubernetes service. It examines logs, events, memory use, image pulls, and connectivity, then proposes configuration patches or commands without applying live changes.
- Investigate repeated container restarts
- Diagnose memory exhaustion
- Find causes of image pull or scheduling failures
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Guides authentication and access permissions for Google Cloud users and applications. It helps choose credentials for local development, production services, or external clouds, with guidance on short-lived credentials and avoiding downloaded service account keys.
- Set up credentials for local Python development
- Configure Cloud Run access to Cloud SQL
- Connect workloads on AWS or Azure to Google Cloud
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Evaluate Google Cloud workloads against built-in best practices or custom organizational rules using Workload Manager. Use public client libraries or the REST API to run checks, review violations and scanned resources, and export results to BigQuery.
- Evaluate workloads against Google Cloud best practices
- Inspect rules for SAP and SQL Server workloads
- Run evaluations using custom organizational rules
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Manage temporary access in Google Cloud with Privileged Access Manager. Configure who can request which roles and for how long, maintain access configurations, and handle access requests and approval decisions through guided workflows.
- Request temporary access to Google Cloud resources
- Configure eligible requesters and approvers
- Review and approve or deny pending access requests
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Investigate Google Cloud network problems using traffic logs, performance metrics, and connection path tests. Identify blocked traffic, packet loss, and latency, summarize traffic volumes, or estimate VPC Flow Logs costs.
- Investigate blocked traffic and packet loss
- Check latency and throughput trends
- Analyze Cloud NAT port exhaustion
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Diagnose Google Cloud Filestore mount failures by checking client access rules, network firewalls, and audit logs. Distinguish permission errors from connection timeouts, then provide a structured report and remediation commands that require confirmation before execution.
- Investigating a Filestore mount that hangs or fails
- Diagnosing access-denied errors from a GKE workload
- Checking client permissions and VPC firewall rules
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Plan and manage Cloud Spanner databases on Google Cloud, design tables and primary keys, write SQL and client code, and investigate slow queries using database statistics to identify resource-intensive operations.
- Create Cloud Spanner instances and databases
- Design primary keys and related tables
- Write SQL queries and client library code
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Adapt Airflow workflow definitions for newer versions in Google Cloud's managed service. The skill guides checks for incompatible code and dependencies, explains required changes, and supports requested deployment and verification for Airflow 2.11.1 or Airflow 3.
- Migrate workflow definitions to Airflow 2.11.1
- Review code changes needed for Airflow 3
- Replace removed operators and outdated dependencies
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Deploy AI models on GKE with suitable GPUs or TPUs and model servers. Generate deployment configuration, adjust automatic scaling, and tune inference—the process of producing model responses—for memory use, throughput, and response time.
- Deploying Gemma or Llama on GKE
- Choosing GPUs or TPUs for model serving
- Configuring automatic scaling for LLM requests
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Plan and configure GKE cluster networks, including private nodes, IP address ranges, DNS, and outbound connectivity. Use the guidance to set up VPC-native networking and Dataplane V2, which provides built-in network policy enforcement.
- Designing a private GKE cluster network
- Planning IP ranges for Pods, Services, and nodes
- Configuring outbound access with a static source IP
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Configure GKE logging, metrics collection, dashboards, and alerts with Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and managed Prometheus. Diagnose missing measurements, collection failures, permission errors, and alert rule problems to identify appropriate configuration changes.
- Setting up GKE logging and metrics collection
- Investigating missing Prometheus metrics
- Planning dashboards and alerts for cluster health
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Audit and strengthen security for applications running on GKE. Configure pod traffic restrictions, sandbox isolation, namespace security standards, and Secret Manager volume mounts to protect workloads at the application and namespace level.
- Auditing GKE security settings
- Restricting communication within a namespace
- Isolating risky pods and applying security standards
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Plan and configure security across Google Kubernetes Engine clusters. Review access permissions, enable Secret Manager integration, and configure protections such as Shielded Nodes and Binary Authorization to strengthen the platform supporting your applications.
- Review cluster access permissions
- Enable Secret Manager integration
- Configure Shielded Nodes and GKE Sandbox
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Investigate crashes, out-of-memory errors, and device initialization failures on GKE TPU v6e nodes. The skill checks logs and custom metrics collection for conflicting operations, then guides temporary mitigation by disabling an identified collector.
- Investigate vbar_control_agent crashes and memory exhaustion
- Check tpu-device-plugin metrics checksum errors
- Inspect conflicts with custom TPU metrics collectors
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Diagnoses storage failures in GKE, Google's managed Kubernetes service, including stuck Pods, disk attachment errors, storage pressure, and missing volume expansion. It provides diagnostic commands and reviewable configuration patches for deployment through GitOps.
- Diagnose Pods stuck in ContainerCreating
- Investigate slow disks and node storage pressure
- Find why expanded storage is missing inside a container
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Configure and troubleshoot automatic node scaling in GKE. Examine logs and workload constraints to explain why nodes fail to grow or shrink, and guide tuning for capacity shortages, zone placement, and sudden traffic increases.
- Enable automatic scaling for GKE node pools
- Find why nodes do not scale up
- Identify constraints that prevent nodes from scaling down
google/skills☆ 21.4KUpdated Oct 20, 2026