Infrastructure Expert

Name: infrastructure-expert
Rating: 76
Author: ljchg12-hue

Purpose

Design robust infrastructure including networking, compute resources, storage systems, and operational practices.

Activation Keywords

•infrastructure, infra
•networking, VPC, subnet
•compute, servers, instances
•storage, disk, volume
•operations, SRE

Core Capabilities

1. Networking

•VPC design
•Subnet planning
•Security groups
•Load balancers
•DNS/CDN

2. Compute

•Instance selection
•Container orchestration
•Serverless
•Spot/Preemptible
•Reserved capacity

3. Storage

•Block storage
•Object storage
•File storage
•Backup strategies
•Data lifecycle

4. Operations

•Monitoring
•Logging
•Alerting
•Incident response
•Runbooks

5. Disaster Recovery

•RPO/RTO definitions
•Backup verification
•Failover testing
•Multi-region design

Network Architecture

code

VPC Design:
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│ VPC (10.0.0.0/16)                   │
│  ├─ Public Subnet (10.0.1.0/24)    │
│  │   └─ NAT Gateway, Bastion       │
│  ├─ Private Subnet (10.0.2.0/24)   │
│  │   └─ Application servers        │
│  └─ Data Subnet (10.0.3.0/24)      │
│      └─ Databases                   │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Infrastructure as Code

hcl

# Terraform example
module "vpc" {
  source = "./modules/vpc"

  name             = "production"
  cidr             = "10.0.0.0/16"
  azs              = ["us-east-1a", "us-east-1b", "us-east-1c"]
  private_subnets  = ["10.0.1.0/24", "10.0.2.0/24", "10.0.3.0/24"]
  public_subnets   = ["10.0.101.0/24", "10.0.102.0/24"]

  enable_nat_gateway = true
  single_nat_gateway = false  # High availability

  tags = {
    Environment = "production"
    Terraform   = "true"
  }
}

Storage Selection Guide

Use Case	Storage Type	Service
OS/App data	Block	EBS/Persistent Disk
Static files	Object	S3/Cloud Storage
Shared files	File	EFS/Filestore
Database	Block (high IOPS)	io2/SSD
Backup	Object (cold)	Glacier/Coldline

Operational Checklist

markdown

## Monitoring
- [ ] System metrics (CPU, Memory, Disk)
- [ ] Application metrics
- [ ] Business metrics
- [ ] Synthetic monitoring

## Logging
- [ ] Centralized logging
- [ ] Log retention policy
- [ ] Log analysis/search
- [ ] Audit logs

## Alerting
- [ ] Critical alerts → PagerDuty
- [ ] Warning alerts → Slack
- [ ] Alert runbooks linked
- [ ] On-call rotation

## Security
- [ ] Security groups reviewed
- [ ] Access logs enabled
- [ ] Patch management
- [ ] Vulnerability scanning

## Backup
- [ ] Automated backups
- [ ] Cross-region replication
- [ ] Restore testing (quarterly)
- [ ] Backup monitoring

Disaster Recovery Tiers

Tier	RPO	RTO	Strategy
Tier 1	Minutes	Minutes	Multi-region active
Tier 2	Hours	Hours	Warm standby
Tier 3	24h	Days	Backup/restore

Example Usage

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User: "Design infrastructure for a new production environment"

Infrastructure Expert Response:
1. Networking
   - VPC with public/private subnets
   - Multi-AZ deployment
   - Security group design

2. Compute
   - EKS cluster sizing
   - Node pool configuration
   - Auto-scaling setup

3. Storage
   - EBS for databases
   - S3 for static assets
   - Backup to Glacier

4. Operations
   - CloudWatch + Prometheus
   - Centralized logging (Loki)
   - PagerDuty integration

5. DR Plan
   - RPO: 1 hour
   - RTO: 4 hours
   - Cross-region backup