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