k8s-manifest-generator
Generate Kubernetes manifests
Creating Kubernetes manifests requires understanding many fields and best practices. This skill provides guided templates and security-focused examples for Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets.
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Using "k8s-manifest-generator". Create production manifests for a payments API using image registry/payments:2.1.0, port 8080, and external access.
Expected outcome:
- Deployment with three replicas, resource limits, and liveness and readiness probes
- LoadBalancer Service exposing ports 80 and 443
- ConfigMap and Secret references wired into the Deployment
- Security context set to non-root with dropped capabilities
Using "k8s-manifest-generator". Create a ConfigMap with nginx configuration for a web server.
Expected outcome:
- ConfigMap named web-nginx-config with nginx.conf content
- Example nginx.conf with worker processes, log paths, and proxy settings
- Instructions for mounting as a volume or exposing as environment variables
Security Audit
SafeThis is a pure documentation and YAML template skill. No executable code is present. The skill provides guided templates and best practices for Kubernetes manifests. All static findings are false positives: backticks in markdown are code formatting, not command execution; embedded scripts in YAML are template examples, not executable code; cryptographic mentions are documentation references, not actual weak crypto usage.
Risk Factors
⚡ Contains scripts (1)
🌐 Network access (1)
Quality Score
What You Can Build
Standardize app manifests
Create consistent Deployment and Service YAML with security and resource settings.
Bootstrap new service
Draft manifests for a new API with ConfigMap, Secret, and basic networking.
Review YAML quality
Check team manifests against recommended probes, labels, and security context.
Try These Prompts
Generate a Deployment and ClusterIP Service for app web-api using image repo/web:1.2.3, port 8080, and namespace dev.
Create manifests for app billing with a ConfigMap for settings, a Secret reference for credentials, a Deployment, and a Service.
Create a Deployment and PersistentVolumeClaim for app reports with 20Gi storage and mount it at /var/lib/app.
Generate production manifests with non-root security context, read-only filesystem, resource limits, and health probes for app payments.
Best Practices
- Provide exact image tags and resource limits in your request
- Specify ports, protocols, and exposure type clearly
- Describe ConfigMap and Secret requirements explicitly
Avoid
- Requesting secrets to be placed in plain text in manifests
- Using :latest image tags in production deployments
- Omitting health probes and security context settings