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copilot-instructions k8s.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions. It costs 2,123 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of Kubernetes instructions for running containerized applications with security, resource, health-check, configuration, and network rules. Kubernetes is a system for deploying and managing containers across servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Kubernetes settings for pod security, permissions, secrets, networking, scaling, availability, and health checks.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid insecure containers, missing resource limits, weak access controls, and unreliable deployments.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on copilot-instructions itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything copilot-instructions configures →

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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions

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.github/instructions/k8s.instructions.md · 421 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 421 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Security

  • Pod Security Standards (restricted)
  • SecurityContext non-root (runAsNonRoot: true, runAsUser: 1001)
  • ReadOnlyRootFilesystem when possible
  • NetworkPolicies for isolation
  • minimal RBAC
  • per-app ServiceAccount
  • secrets via volumes not env vars
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: secure-pod
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsNonRoot: true
    runAsUser: 1001
  containers:
  - name: app
    image: nginx
    securityContext:
      readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
    volumeMounts:
    - name: secret-vol
      mountPath: /etc/secret
  volumes:
  - name: secret-vol
    secret:
      secretName: mysecret
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: NetworkPolicy
metadata:
  name: allow-backend
spec:
  podSelector:
    matchLabels:
      app: frontend
  policyTypes:
  - Ingress
  ingress:
  - from:
    - namespaceSelector:
        matchLabels:
          name: backend

Resources

  • always set requests/limits
  • QoS Guaranteed for critical workloads
  • ResourceQuotas per namespace
  • LimitRanges for defaults
  • HPA/VPA for scaling
  • PodDisruptionBudgets for availability
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: resource-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app
    image: nginx
    resources:
      requests:
        memory: "128Mi"
        cpu: "100m"
      limits:
        memory: "512Mi"
        cpu: "500m"
---
apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: hpa-example
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: myapp
  minReplicas: 1
  maxReplicas: 5
  metrics:
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: cpu
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: 50

Health Checks

  • livenessProbe for auto-restart
  • readinessProbe for traffic routing
  • startupProbe for slow apps
  • appropriate timeouts
  • HTTP/TCP/exec probes as needed
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: health-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app
    image: nginx
    livenessProbe:
      httpGet:
        path: /health/live
        port: 80
      initialDelaySeconds: 30
      periodSeconds: 10
    readinessProbe:
      httpGet:
        path: /health/ready
        port: 80
      initialDelaySeconds: 5
      periodSeconds: 5
    startupProbe:
      httpGet:
        path: /health/startup
        port: 80
      failureThreshold: 30
      periodSeconds: 10

Read the full file on GitHub · 421 lines

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copilot-instructions k8s.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,123 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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