gke-upgrades

gke-upgrades is a Containers & Kubernetes skill for AI agents, published by google in the skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates gke-upgrades D (63/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Plans, executes, and validates Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster upgrades and maintenance operations for both Standard and Autopilot clusters. Produces upgrade plans, pre/post-upgrade checklists, maintenance runbooks with gcloud commands, release channel strategy, and troubleshooting guides. Handles node pool upgrade strategies (surge, blue-green), version compatibility, PDB management, and workload-specific concerns (stateful, GPU, operators). Use this skill whenever the user mentions GKE upgrades, Kubernetes version bumps, node pool maintenance, GKE patching, cluster version management, release channel selection, maintenance windows, surge upgrades, stuck upgrades, or any GKE lifecycle management task — even casual mentions like "we need to upgrade our clusters" or "plan our next GKE maintenance" or "our upgrade is stuck." Don't use for GKE cluster creation, application onboarding, general networking/routing setup, or security policy configurations (use gke-basics or relevant…

Grade
D
Quality
63 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
14,847

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Our review

Architecture
79 / 100
Maturity
Structured: ships references or scripts
Security scan
No issues found
License
Apache-2.0
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
Scope
Vendor-specific: built around one product. GKE cluster upgrades on Google's public cloud platform

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