Kubernetes
Manage Kubernetes clusters via kubectl. Deploy, scale, and inspect workloads.
Details
Kubernetes skill lets your agent run kubectl commands—get pods, apply manifests, scale deployments. For teams running workloads on K8s.
When to use
Use when the agent should deploy or troubleshoot K8s. Requires kubeconfig; pair with GitHub for gitops-style flows.
How Kubernetes fits into your OpenClaw setup
Development skills are the workhorses of an OpenClaw setup. They give your assistant the ability to participate in real engineering work — reading and writing code, running tooling, and reporting back in the channel where you already collaborate. Kubernetes belongs to this group, and like most development skills it pays off fastest when it is wired into the projects you touch every day rather than installed and forgotten.
Day-to-day use
Day to day, Kubernetes gets invoked the way you would delegate to a colleague: state the goal, let the assistant choose the tool, and review what comes back. Output lands in your team channel, so command results and follow-ups stay attached to the conversation that prompted them — useful when someone asks three weeks later why a change was made.
Installing Kubernetes
Setup takes a few minutes. Open a terminal in your OpenClaw directory, run the command below, and restart the assistant so it picks up the new capability. Check the skill's README before first use — if it needs an API key or account access, you want that configured up front.
Then test it. Ask the assistant for something small that exercises the new skill end to end. Skills fail in two ways — not registered, or registered but misconfigured — and a quick first request tells you immediately which situation you are in, if either.
clawhub install kubernetesGetting the most out of it
No skill does its best work alone. The assistant routinely chains Kubernetes with other installed capabilities — gathering context with one skill, acting with another, reporting with a third — without being asked to. That is why it pays to choose skills as a toolkit rather than one at a time: each addition makes the others more capable.
And if you would rather not assemble this yourself, we do it for a living: OpenClaw installation, a skill set chosen and configured around how you work — including Kubernetes where it fits — and custom skills built where the catalogue stops short.