SKILL.md
Deployment Automation
Table of Contents
- [Overview](#overview)
- [When to Use](#when-to-use)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Reference Guides](#reference-guides)
- [Best Practices](#best-practices)
Overview
Establish automated deployment pipelines that safely and reliably move applications across development, staging, and production environments with minimal manual intervention and risk.
When to Use
- Continuous deployment to Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code deployment
- Multi-environment promotion
- Blue-green deployment strategies
- Canary release management
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Automated rollback procedures
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
# helm/Chart.yaml
apiVersion: v2
name: myapp
description: My awesome application
type: application
version: 1.0.0
# helm/values.yaml
replicaCount: 3
image:
repository: ghcr.io/myorg/myapp
pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
tag: "1.0.0"
service:
type: ClusterIP
port: 80
targetPort: 3000
resources:
requests:
memory: "256Mi"
cpu: "250m"
limits:
memory: "512Mi"
cpu: "500m"
autoscaling:
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
Guide
Contents
Helm Deployment Chart
GitHub Actions Deployment Workflow
GitHub Actions Deployment Workflow
ArgoCD Deployment
Blue-Green Deployment
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
- Implement GitOps workflows
- Use blue-green deployments
- Implement canary releases
- Automate rollback procedures
- Test deployments in staging first
- Use feature flags for gradual rollout
- Monitor deployment health
- Document deployment procedures
- Implement approval gates for production
- Version infrastructure code
- Use environment parity
❌ DON'T
- Deploy directly to production
- Skip testing in staging
- Use manual deployment scripts
- Deploy without rollback plan
- Ignore health checks
- Use hardcoded configuration
- Deploy during critical hours
- Skip pre-deployment validation
- Forget to backup before deploy
- Deploy from local machines