{
  "id": "specialization:k8s-ops",
  "_kind": "Specialization",
  "_file": "domain/specializations/k8s-ops.yaml",
  "_cluster": "domain",
  "attributes": {
    "displayName": "Kubernetes Operations",
    "parentDomainId": "domain:devops",
    "description": "Kubernetes Operations covers the day-to-day management, scaling, and\nreliability of production Kubernetes clusters and the workloads running\non them.\n\nKey areas include cluster lifecycle management (kubeadm, EKS/GKE/AKS\nmanaged control planes), workload configuration (Deployments,\nStatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs), networking (CNI plugins, Ingress,\nNetworkPolicies), storage (PVs, StorageClasses), RBAC, and\nobservability (Prometheus, Loki). The specialization intersects with\nTerraform/IaC for cluster provisioning, SRE for reliability targets,\nand Kubernetes Operator Development for custom automation built on top\nof the API.\n"
  },
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      "from": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "to": "domain:devops",
      "kind": "specializes"
    },
    {
      "from": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "to": "tool:kubernetes",
      "kind": "uses_tool"
    },
    {
      "from": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "to": "tool:helm",
      "kind": "uses_tool"
    },
    {
      "from": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "to": "tool:kustomize",
      "kind": "uses_tool"
    },
    {
      "from": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "to": "tool:argocd",
      "kind": "uses_tool"
    }
  ],
  "incomingEdges": [
    {
      "from": "domain:devops",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "contains"
    },
    {
      "from": "role:ml-ops-engineer",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "requires_skill",
      "attributes": {
        "level": "intermediate"
      }
    },
    {
      "from": "role:devops-engineer",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "requires_skill",
      "attributes": {
        "level": "intermediate"
      }
    },
    {
      "from": "role:sre",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "requires_skill",
      "attributes": {
        "level": "intermediate"
      }
    },
    {
      "from": "role:platform-engineer",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "requires_skill",
      "attributes": {
        "level": "expert"
      }
    },
    {
      "from": "skill-area:k8s-operator-development",
      "to": "specialization:k8s-ops",
      "kind": "applies_to",
      "attributes": {
        "confidence": "primary"
      }
    }
  ]
}