GCP Cloud Skill

Overview

Specialized skill for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and services. Provides deep expertise in GCP-native solutions, best practices, and operational patterns.

Capabilities

gcloud CLI Operations

• Execute and analyze gcloud commands
• Handle project and organization context
• Interpret API responses and errors
• Manage service account impersonation
• Use gcloud configurations

Compute Services

• Compute Engine VM management
• Cloud Run service deployment
• Cloud Functions configuration
• App Engine application management
• Managed Instance Groups

Kubernetes (GKE)

• GKE cluster provisioning (Standard/Autopilot)
• Node pool management and configuration
• GKE networking (VPC-native, Shared VPC)
• Workload Identity configuration
• GKE security features (Binary Authorization)

Networking

• VPC network design and implementation
• Cloud Load Balancing configuration
• Cloud DNS management
• Cloud CDN setup
• Cloud Interconnect and VPN

Storage and Databases

• Cloud Storage bucket management
• Persistent Disk optimization
• Cloud SQL management
• Cloud Spanner configuration
• Firestore/Datastore operations
• BigQuery dataset management

Security and IAM

• IAM policy and role management
• Service account configuration
• Organization policies
• Secret Manager operations
• VPC Service Controls

CI/CD and DevOps

• Cloud Build pipeline configuration
• Artifact Registry management
• Cloud Deploy for CD
• Container Registry operations

Target Processes

• iac-implementation.js - GCP infrastructure provisioning
• kubernetes-setup.js - GKE cluster management
• cost-optimization.js - GCP cost analysis and optimization

Usage Context

This skill is invoked when processes require:

• GCP infrastructure provisioning
• GKE cluster setup and management
• GCP networking configuration
• IAM and service account design
• GCP cost optimization

Dependencies

• gcloud CLI
• GCP credentials/service accounts
• gsutil for Cloud Storage
• bq for BigQuery

Output Formats

• gcloud CLI commands and outputs
• Deployment Manager templates
• IAM policy documents
• Cost analysis reports
• Architecture recommendations