DevOps Automation

Automate DevOps workflows including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident management, and infrastructure operations. Based on n8n's IT Ops workflow templates.

Overview

This skill covers:

CI/CD pipeline automation

Monitoring and alerting

Incident management

Infrastructure automation

Deployment workflows

CI/CD Automation

GitHub Actions Integration

workflow

:

"GitHub CI/CD Notifications"

triggers

:

-

github_push

-

github_pull_request

-

github_workflow_run

on_push

:

action

:

-

trigger_ci

:

if_main_branch

-

notify_slack

:

channel

:

"#deployments"

message

:

|

📦 New Push to {branch}

Commit

:

`

{

commit_sha_short

}

`

Author

:

{

author

}

Message

:

{

commit_message

}

[

View Diff

]

(

{

compare_url

}

)

on_pr_opened

:

action

:

-

notify_slack

:

channel

:

"#code-review"

message

:

|

🔀 New Pull Request

Title

:

{

pr_title

}

Author

:

{

author

}

Branch

:

{

head

}

→

{

base

}

[

Review PR

]

(

{

pr_url

}

)

-

assign_reviewers

:

based_on_codeowners

-

run_ci_checks

on_workflow_complete

:

action

:

-

notify_slack

:

message

:

|

{status_emoji} Build {status}

Workflow

:

{

workflow_name

}

Branch

:

{

branch

}

Duration

:

{

duration

}

{

if_failed

:

[

View Logs

]

(

{

logs_url

}

)

}

Deployment Pipeline

deployment_pipeline

:

stages

:

build

:

trigger

:

push_to_main

steps

:

-

checkout_code

-

install_dependencies

-

run_tests

-

build_artifact

-

push_to_registry

staging

:

trigger

:

build_success

steps

:

-

deploy_to_staging

-

run_integration_tests

-

notify_qa

production

:

trigger

:

manual_approval

steps

:

-

create_backup

-

deploy_to_production

-

run_smoke_tests

-

notify_team

rollback

:

trigger

:

deployment_failed OR manual

steps

:

-

revert_to_previous

-

notify_team

-

create_incident

Monitoring & Alerting

Alert Routing

alert_routing

:

sources

:

-

prometheus

-

datadog

-

cloudwatch

-

new_relic

severity_levels

:

critical

:

response_time

:

5_minutes

channels

:

[

pagerduty

,

slack_urgent

,

sms

]

escalation

:

immediate

high

:

response_time

:

15_minutes

channels

:

[

slack_alerts

,

email

]

escalation

:

after_15_minutes

medium

:

response_time

:

1_hour

channels

:

[

slack_alerts

]

low

:

response_time

:

24_hours

channels

:

[

slack_logging

]

routing_rules

:

-

if

:

service == "payments"

team

:

payments_oncall

severity_boost

:

+1

-

if

:

service == "auth"

team

:

security_oncall

-

default

:

team

:

platform_oncall

Alert Templates

alert_templates

:

infrastructure

:

cpu_high

:

title

:

"🔥 High CPU Usage"

body

:

|

Server:

CPU: {cpu_percent}%

Duration:

Threshold

:

{

threshold

}

%

[

View Dashboard

]

(

{

grafana_url

}

)

memory_critical

:

title

:

"💾 Critical Memory"

body

:

|

Server:

Memory: {memory_percent}%

Available: {available_mb}MB

[

SSH to Server

]

(

{

ssh_link

}

)

disk_full

:

title

:

"💿 Disk Space Critical"

body

:

|

Server:

Disk: {disk_percent}%

Available: {available_gb}GB

Suggestion

:

Clean logs or expand volume

application

:

error_spike

:

title

:

"📈 Error Rate Spike"

body

:

|

Service:

Error Rate: {error_rate}%

Normal: {baseline}%

Top Errors

:

{

top_errors

}

latency_high

:

title

:

"🐢 High Latency"

body

:

|

Service:

P99 Latency: {p99_ms}ms

Threshold: {threshold_ms}ms

Incident Management

Incident Workflow

incident_workflow

:

detection

:

sources

:

[

monitoring

,

user_report

,

automated_check

]

triage

:

auto_severity

:

-

if

:

affects_payments

severity

:

critical

-

if

:

affects_auth

severity

:

critical

-

if

:

affects_api AND error_rate

>

10%

severity

:

high

response

:

critical

:

-

create_incident_channel

:

"#inc-{timestamp}"

-

page_oncall

:

immediately

-

notify_stakeholders

:

[

engineering_lead

,

product

]

-

start_war_room

:

zoom_link

-

create_status_page

:

incident

high

:

-

create_incident_channel

-

notify_oncall

:

slack

-

create_ticket

:

jira

communication

:

internal

:

frequency

:

every_30_minutes

channel

:

incident_channel

template

:

|

📊 Incident Update

Status

:

{

status

}

Impact

:

{

impact

}

Next update

:

{

next_update_time

}

Current actions

:

{

action_items

}

external

:

channel

:

status_page

template

:

customer_facing_update

resolution

:

steps

:

-

confirm_resolution

-

update_status_page

:

resolved

-

notify_stakeholders

-

schedule_postmortem

-

close_incident_channel

:

after_24h

Postmortem Template

postmortem_template

:

sections

:

summary

:

-

incident_title

-

duration

-

severity

-

impact

timeline

:

format

:

|

| Time | Event |

|------|-------|

| {time} | {event} |

root_cause

:

-

what_happened

-

why_it_happened

-

contributing_factors

impact

:

-

users_affected

-

revenue_impact

-

sla_breach

resolution

:

-

how_it_was_fixed

-

time_to_detect

-

time_to_resolve

action_items

:

format

:

|

| Action | Owner | Due Date | Status |

|--------|-------|----------|--------|

lessons_learned

:

-

what_went_well

-

what_went_poorly

-

lucky_breaks

Infrastructure Automation

Server Provisioning

provisioning_workflow

:

trigger

:

jira_ticket OR slack_request

steps

:

1. validate_request

:

check

:

[

budget_approval

,

security_review

]

2. create_infrastructure

:

terraform

:

-

vpc

-

security_groups

-

ec2_instances

-

load_balancer

3. configure_server

:

ansible

:

-

base_configuration

-

security_hardening

-

monitoring_agent

-

application_setup

4. validate

:

-

health_check

-

security_scan

-

performance_baseline

5. notify

:

slack

:

"✅ Server {hostname} is ready"

include

:

[

ssh_access

,

dashboard_link

]

Scheduled Maintenance

maintenance_automation

:

tasks

:

certificate_renewal

:

schedule

:

"30 days before expiry"

action

:

-

request_new_cert

:

letsencrypt

-

deploy_cert

-

verify_ssl

-

notify

:

if_failure

security_patching

:

schedule

:

"weekly"

action

:

-

check_updates

-

if_critical

:

immediate_patch

-

else

:

schedule_maintenance_window

log_rotation

:

schedule

:

"daily"

action

:

-

rotate_logs

-

compress_old

-

upload_to_s3

-

delete_local

:

older_than_7_days

backup_verification

:

schedule

:

"weekly"

action

:

-

restore_to_test_env

-

run_integrity_checks

-

report_status

Kubernetes Automation

K8s Workflows

kubernetes_automation

:

deployment

:

trigger

:

docker_image_pushed

steps

:

-

update_manifest

:

with_new_image_tag

-

apply_to_staging

-

run_tests

-

if_success

:

apply_to_production

scaling

:

trigger

:

metric_threshold

rules

:

-

if

:

cpu

>

80%

action

:

scale_up

max_replicas

:

10

-

if

:

cpu < 20%

action

:

scale_down

min_replicas

:

2

rollback

:

trigger

:

health_check_failed

action

:

-

kubectl_rollout_undo

-

notify_team

-

create_incident

Output Example

Request

"Set up deployment notifications for GitHub Actions" Output :

GitHub Actions Deployment Notifications

n8n Workflow ```yaml trigger: GitHub Webhook events: [workflow_run] Notification Templates Build Started: 🚀 Deployment Started Branch: main Commit: abc1234 Author: @developer Triggered by: Push View Workflow Build Success: ✅ Deployment Successful Environment: Production Duration: 3m 42s Version: v1.2.3 Changes: • Feature X • Bug fix Y View Deployment Build Failed: ❌ Deployment Failed Stage: Test Error: npm test failed View Logs Retry Slack Integration channel : "#deployments" mention_on_failure : "@oncall" thread_replies : true

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