The Kubernetes Manifest Reviewer is a specialized auditing tool designed to catch misconfigurations before they reach your cluster. It performs deep static analysis on YAML files to identify security vulnerabilities, API deprecations, and architectural anti-patterns.
Manual YAML reviews are error-prone and time-consuming. This skill automates the expertise of a Senior DevOps Engineer, checking for over 50 specific failure modes including root user execution, unpinned image tags, and missing health probes. It goes beyond simple linting by cross-referencing resources—ensuring your Services actually match your Deployment labels and your ConfigMaps are correctly referenced.
Security Auditing: Flags privileged escalation, missing seccomp profiles, and hardcoded secrets.
API Lifecycle Management: Detects deprecated versions based on your specific K8s cluster version (1.25 through 1.32+).
Reliability Checks: Validates liveness/readiness probes, resource limits, and anti-affinity rules.
Best Practices: Enforces standard labels, proper rollout strategies, and structured logging.
You receive a structured Markdown report categorizing issues by severity (Critical to Low). Each finding includes the specific line number, a clear description of the impact, and a checklist of best practices applied or missed.