gke

A guide to running Kubernetes applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google's managed Kubernetes service. It covers cluster types, networking, security, and command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and access GKE clusters, choose Autopilot or Standard mode, manage node pools, configure networking, and connect workloads to Google services with Workload Identity.
Why use it?
It helps deploy containers while choosing how much of the underlying machines Google or the team manages and how applications receive cloud permissions safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin/gke
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin --skill gke
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 706 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00090 $0.00706
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00353
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2be34010924c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gke scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/gke/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GKE — Google Kubernetes Engine

Run Kubernetes workloads with Google's managed control plane. Choose Autopilot (fully managed nodes) or Standard (you manage node pools).

Mode Selection

Autopilot Standard
Node management Google You
Billing Per pod resource Per node
Best for Ops-light teams, variable load Fine-grained node control

Core Patterns

Create an Autopilot cluster (recommended)

# Billable action — GKE charges per cluster + node resources
gcloud container clusters create-auto CLUSTER_NAME \
  --region REGION \
  --project PROJECT_ID

Get credentials

gcloud container clusters get-credentials CLUSTER_NAME \
  --region REGION \
  --project PROJECT_ID

Workload Identity (never use SA key files in pods)

# Annotate the Kubernetes SA to impersonate a GCP SA
kubectl annotate serviceaccount KSA_NAME \
  iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account=GSA_EMAIL

# Bind the GCP SA
gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding GSA_EMAIL \
  --role roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser \
  --member "serviceAccount:PROJECT_ID.svc.id.goog[NAMESPACE/KSA_NAME]"

Safety Rules

  • Always use Workload Identity — never mount SA key files into pods
  • Enable Binary Authorization for production clusters
  • Cost warning: GKE clusters incur cluster management fee + node costs

References

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 71 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 2be34010924c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gke is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 706 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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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