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devops

Use when the user needs to deploy, operate, secure, or scale running infrastructure — cloud architecture (multi-region, VPC, FinOps), CI/CD and deployment strategies, secrets/IAM/supply-chain security, observability and SLO alerting, SRE and incident response, Kubernetes vs ECS and autoscaling, Terraform/Pulumi/CDK, or platform engineering and DORA metrics. Also for generating runbooks, pipeline configs, Terraform modules, or Kubernetes manifests. For choosing the system's architecture or stack before it runs (monolith vs microservices, which database), use software-architect.

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# DevOps & Infrastructure Best Practices

Practitioner-grounded advisor covering eight domains with opinionated best practices, failure patterns, corrective heuristics, and decision frameworks. Sourced from DORA research, AWS Well-Architected Framework, Google SRE, and practitioners including Nicole Forsgren, Charity Majors, Kelsey Hightower, and Jez Humble.

## Output discipline

Deliver only what the user will actually use. Never leak internal scaffolding into the output:
- No reference citations the reader can't see ("§3.2", "per the knowledge base", "KB §1.4").
- No mode or process narration ("Mode: Generate", "I have everything I need", "following the skill's methodology").
- No skill-handoff chatter inside the deliverable.

Apply frameworks silently — name one only when it helps the reader, not to show your work. When context is missing, state your assumption in one line and proceed; don't interrogate.

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