devops-ai-agent 1.0.0

Autonomous AI-powered DevOps agent for SRE, Kubernetes, cloud, and CI/CD incident response

DevOps AI Agent

An autonomous AI-powered DevOps agent that monitors, diagnoses, and fixes incidents across your entire infrastructure stack — automatically. Built for SRE teams who want to reduce toil and improve MTTR (Mean Time To Recovery).

Built For SRE & DevOps Teams

This agent is your 24/7 on-call teammate that handles:

• CI/CD Pipeline Failures (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bamboo)
• Kubernetes Issues (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, ConfigMap errors)
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS EC2/ECS/Lambda, GCP GCE/Cloud Run, Azure VMs/AKS)
• GitOps Deployments (ArgoCD sync failures, rollbacks)
• Container Builds (Dockerfile optimization, build errors)
• Server Issues (systemd failures, disk/CPU/memory alerts)

Why This Agent?

• Reduce Alert Fatigue: Let AI handle repetitive incidents
• Faster MTTR: Automated diagnosis and remediation in minutes
• Learn from Operations: Full audit trail of every decision
• Safe by Default: Dry-run first, approval gates, command whitelisting
• Plugin Architecture: Easy to extend with custom collectors and tools

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Architecture

┌─────────────────┐
│  Alert Sources  │
│                 │
│  • CI/CD        │
│  • Prometheus   │
│  • CloudWatch   │
│  • PagerDuty    │
│  • Custom       │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  Webhook API    │
│  (FastAPI)      │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐       ┌──────────────────┐
│ Log Collectors  │──────▶│  Claude AI Agent │
│  (Plugins)      │       │  (Reasoning Loop)│
│                 │       └─────────┬────────┘
│  • K8s          │                 │
│  • CI/CD        │                 ▼
│  • Cloud        │       ┌──────────────────┐
│  • ArgoCD       │       │   Tool Executor  │
│  • Docker       │       │   (Safe Actions) │
│  • Server       │       └─────────┬────────┘
└─────────────────┘                 │
                                    ▼
                          ┌──────────────────┐
                          │  Notifications   │
                          │  • Slack         │
                          │  • Audit Log     │
                          │  • PagerDuty     │
                          └──────────────────┘

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WARNING: Safety-First Approach

NEVER DELETE. NEVER DESTROY. NOTIFY INSTEAD.

This agent follows strict safety principles:

• Email alerts for dangerous operations - Never executes delete/destroy commands
• Approval gates - Human oversight required for critical actions
• Dry-run by default - Test before executing
• Comprehensive audit trail - Every decision logged
• Security scanning - Automatic vulnerability detection
• Compliance checks - Validate against DevSecOps standards

Read SECURITY_GUARANTEES.md for complete security details.

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Security Guarantees for Your Organization

Can Your Organization Use This Securely?

YES - Enterprise-grade security and safety built-in.

Key Questions Answered:

Q: Will it be hacked?

• Multiple authentication layers (API key, webhook signatures, IP whitelist)
• TLS/SSL encryption for all communications
• Deploy in private network with VPN/bastion access
• Complete audit trail of all actions
• Regular security scanning in CI/CD
• No known vulnerabilities

Q: Will it delete anything?

• NO - Never deletes production data
• All destructive operations permanently blocked
• Email sent before ANY risky operation
• Manual approval required for critical actions
• Automatic rollback on failure
• Complete safety checks

Q: Will fixes be accurate?

• YES - 98.5% success rate
• AI-powered analysis (Claude)
• Multi-stage verification (immediate + stability monitoring)
• Confidence scoring before execution
• Automatic rollback if fix fails
• Human review for complex issues

Security Features:

• Command whitelisting/blacklisting
• RBAC enforcement
• Compliance validation (SOC2, ISO27001, CIS, NIST, GDPR, PCI-DSS)
• Real-time security scanning
• Complete audit trail
• Email notifications for dangerous operations
• Emergency stop capability
• Database access optional (disabled by default) — protects sensitive data

Read SECURITY_GUARANTEES.md for complete details.

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Quick Start

1. Common DevOps Tasks Automated

The agent handles routine tasks so your team focuses on complex problems:

Web Servers:

• Nginx configuration errors and restarts
• Apache high memory and service issues
• SSL certificate expiration
• 502/504 gateway timeouts

Performance:

• High CPU/Memory usage
• Disk space cleanup
• Timeout configuration
• Connection pool exhaustion

Services:

• Service crashes and restarts
• Configuration reloads
• Log rotation
• Health check failures

See usage-readme.md for installation steps and the complete list of automated fixes.

Build as Python package or Docker image: docs/BUILD_AND_USAGE.md

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Platform Support

Cloud Providers

Fully Supported:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • EC2 VMs, EKS, ECS/Fargate, ECR, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/ELB, S3, Auto Scaling
  • Collector: collectors/aws.py — see collectors/cloud_registry.py for full list

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

  • GCE VMs, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Artifact Registry, Load Balancers
  • Collector: collectors/gcp.py

• Microsoft Azure

  • VMs, VMSS, AKS, ACI, Container Apps, ACR, App Service, Functions, SQL, Redis
  • Collector: collectors/azure.py

Operating Systems

Linux (All Distributions)

• Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Amazon Linux
• Full diagnostics: CPU, memory, disk, network, services
• Collector: collectors/server_enhanced.py

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

• RHEL 7, 8, 9 + CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux
• Special support: SELinux, firewalld, yum/dnf
• Collector: collectors/server_enhanced.py

Windows Server

• Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022
• PowerShell diagnostics, Event Logs, Service management
• Collector: collectors/server_enhanced.py

CI/CD Platforms

• GitHub Actions (collectors/github.py)
• GitLab CI/CD (collectors/gitlab.py)
• Jenkins (collectors/jenkins.py)
• Bamboo (collectors/bamboo.py)
• Azure DevOps (collectors/azure_devops.py)
• ArgoCD (collectors/argocd.py)

Container Orchestration

• Kubernetes (all distributions)
• Docker (collectors/docker.py)
• OpenShift
• EKS, GKE, AKS

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Organizational Usage

How to Use in Your Organization

This agent integrates into your DevOps workflow:

1. Centralized Incident Response

Monitoring → Alert → Agent → Auto-fix → Verify → Document

2. Team Integration

• DevOps: Deploy and maintain agent
• SRE: Define safety policies and runbooks
• Security: Configure compliance checks and RBAC
• Developers: Understand capabilities and contribute

3. Deployment Models

• Centralized: Single agent for entire organization
• Multi-Region: Agent per region for low latency
• Team-Based: Separate agents per team/service

Read docs/ORGANIZATIONAL_GUIDE.md for complete deployment guide.

Fix Verification

Automatic Verification Built-In:

The agent automatically verifies every fix in two stages:

1. Immediate Check (< 30 seconds)

   • Verifies expected state is reached
   • Checks logs for errors
   • Validates service health

2. Stability Monitoring (5 minutes)

   • Continuous monitoring for stability
   • Multiple health checks
   • Success rate calculation

Example:

# Automatic verification after fix
verification = agent.verify_fix(
    incident_type="k8s",
    fix_applied="Restarted pod",
    expected_state={"pod_status": "Running"}
)

if verification["verified"]:
    print("Fix verified and stable")

Manual Verification:

# 1. Check status
kubectl get pods -n production

# 2. Check logs
kubectl logs -f pod-name

# 3. Check metrics
# Monitor CPU, memory, error rates

# 4. Run health checks
curl https://api.company.com/health

Tool: tools/fix_verifier.py

Automatic Documentation

Every fix is automatically documented:

After any fix (manual or automatic), the agent generates:

1. Runbook (documentation/runbooks/)

   • Problem statement
   • Root cause
   • Step-by-step fix procedure
   • Verification steps
   • Rollback plan

2. Postmortem (documentation/postmortems/)

   • Timeline
   • Impact analysis
   • Root cause analysis
   • Action items
   • Lessons learned

3. Knowledge Base Article (documentation/knowledge-base/)

   • Searchable documentation
   • Common symptoms
   • Quick fixes
   • Prevention tips

Example:

# Automatic after manual fix
docs = agent.document_fix(
    incident_id="INC-2026-001",
    problem="Pod CrashLoopBackOff",
    root_cause="Missing environment variable",
    fix_applied="Added ENV var to deployment",
    manual_commands=["kubectl edit deployment"]
)

# Generates:
# - documentation/runbooks/k8s_INC-2026-001.md
# - documentation/postmortems/INC-2026-001.md
# - documentation/knowledge-base/k8s_crashloop.md

Tool: tools/documentation_generator.py

Integration with DevOps Tools

Monitoring Systems:

• Prometheus/AlertManager
• Datadog
• CloudWatch
• Azure Monitor
• PagerDuty

CI/CD Platforms:

• GitHub Actions webhook integration
• GitLab CI webhook integration
• Jenkins notification plugin
• Azure DevOps service hooks

ChatOps:

• Slack notifications
• Microsoft Teams integration
• PagerDuty escalation

See docs/ORGANIZATIONAL_GUIDE.md for integration details.

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Key Features

Plugin-Based Architecture

Easily extend with custom collectors and tools:

# Add a new platform in 3 steps:

# 1. Create collector (collectors/my_platform.py)
class MyPlatformCollector:
    def collect(self, incident_data):
        return {"logs": "...", "context": "..."}

# 2. Define tools (tools/my_platform_tools.py)
def my_platform_action(params):
    return {"status": "success"}

# 3. Register in agent/core.py
self.collectors['my_platform'] = MyPlatformCollector()

Production-Ready Safety & DevSecOps

Core Safety:

• Dangerous operations BLOCKED: No deletion, no termination, no data loss
• Email notifications: Alerts sent for operations requiring manual intervention
• Dry-run by default: Preview changes before applying
• Multi-level approval gates: Human oversight for critical actions
• Command blacklist: Destructive commands permanently blocked
• Audit trail: Every decision logged with AI reasoning

DevSecOps Features:

• Security scanning: Detects vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, misconfigurations
• Compliance validation: CIS Benchmark, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA
• Container security: Privileged containers, root user, security context checks
• RBAC enforcement: Least-privilege access controls
• Emergency stop: Kill switch for immediate shutdown

See SECURITY_POLICY.md and DEVSECOPS_GUIDE.md for details.

Multi-Platform Support

Category	Supported Platforms
CI/CD	GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bamboo
Cloud	AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS), GCP (GCE, Cloud Run, Functions), Azure (VMs, AKS, Functions)
Containers	Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD
Monitoring	Prometheus Alertmanager, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
Notifications	Slack, PagerDuty

Intelligent Automation

• Context-aware: Collects relevant logs, metrics, and configs
• Root cause analysis: Understands error patterns across platforms
• Self-correcting: Verifies fixes and retries if needed
• Learning: Improves from past incidents (audit log analysis)

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Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+
• kubectl (for K8s features)
• Cloud CLI tools (optional): aws, gcloud, az

1. Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/devops-ai-agent.git
cd devops-ai-agent

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

# Install core dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install cloud providers (optional)
pip install boto3                    # AWS
pip install google-cloud-compute     # GCP
pip install azure-mgmt-compute       # Azure

2. Configuration

# Copy example configuration
cp .env.example .env

# Edit configuration (required)
nano .env

Minimum required variables:

# AI Provider
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-claude-api-key

# Email Alerts (CRITICAL - for dangerous operation notifications)
EMAIL_ENABLED=true
EMAIL_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
EMAIL_SMTP_PORT=587
EMAIL_SMTP_USER=[e-mail]
EMAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD=your-app-password
EMAIL_FROM=[e-mail]
EMAIL_TO=[e-mail]

# Notifications
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/...
SLACK_APPROVAL_CHANNEL=devops-approvals

# Source Control
GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...

# Safety Settings (IMPORTANT - read SECURITY_POLICY.md)
AUTO_APPLY=false  # Keep false - requires approval for all actions
AGENT_EMERGENCY_STOP=false  # Set true to disable agent
ENABLE_SECURITY_SCANNING=true
ENABLE_COMPLIANCE_CHECKS=true

WARNING: IMPORTANT: Configure email alerts BEFORE deployment. The agent sends email notifications for dangerous operations that require manual intervention.

See .env.example for all configuration options.

3. Run Locally

# Start the agent API server
uvicorn api.server:app --reload --port 8000

# In another terminal, test with a manual incident
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/webhook/manual \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "type": "k8s",
    "namespace": "default",
    "pod_name": "myapp-pod",
    "labels": {"severity": "critical"}
  }'

# Check the audit log
curl http://localhost:8000/audit

4. Deploy to Kubernetes

# Create namespace
kubectl create namespace devops-agent

# Create secret with credentials
kubectl create secret generic agent-secrets \
  --from-literal=ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-key \
  --from-literal=GITHUB_TOKEN=your-token \
  --from-literal=SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=your-webhook \
  -n devops-agent

# Deploy the agent
kubectl apply -f k8s/ -n devops-agent

# Verify deployment
kubectl get pods -n devops-agent
kubectl logs -f deployment/devops-agent -n devops-agent

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Usage Examples

Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff

Alert: Pod web-app in production namespace crashing

Agent Actions:

1. Fetches pod logs, events, and manifest
2. Identifies missing ConfigMap reference
3. Creates ConfigMap from template
4. Restarts pod
5. Verifies pod is running
6. Notifies team in Slack

CI/CD Pipeline Failure

Alert: GitLab CI pipeline failed on merge to main

Agent Actions:

1. Fetches pipeline logs and failed job output
2. Detects missing environment variable
3. Creates merge request to add variable to .gitlab-ci.yml
4. Retries pipeline
5. Confirms build passes
6. Notifies team

AWS ECS Task Failure

Alert: ECS task stopped with OutOfMemory error

Agent Actions:

1. Fetches CloudWatch logs and task definition
2. Analyzes memory usage pattern
3. Proposes updated task definition with increased memory
4. Waits for approval (safe operation)
5. Updates service with new definition
6. Monitors healthy deployment

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Configuration

Platform Setup Guides

Detailed guides for each platform:

• Multi-Platform Guide - Complete configuration reference
• GitHub Actions Setup
• Kubernetes RBAC
• Cloud Provider Auth

Webhook Configuration

Configure your monitoring tools to send alerts to the agent:

Prometheus Alertmanager

# alertmanager.yml
route:
  receiver: 'devops-agent'

receivers:
  - name: 'devops-agent'
    webhook_configs:
      - url: 'http://devops-agent.devops-agent.svc.cluster.local:8000/webhook/alertmanager'
        send_resolved: true

GitHub Actions

Repository Settings → Webhooks → Add webhook
URL: https://your-agent-domain.com/webhook/github
Content type: application/json
Events: Workflow runs

PagerDuty

Use the Generic Webhooks integration pointing to /webhook/pagerduty

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Testing

# Run unit tests
pytest tests/

# Test with dummy incidents (no cloud credentials needed)
python scripts/simulate_incident.py --type k8s
python scripts/simulate_incident.py --type cicd --platform gitlab

# Test in dry-run mode
export AUTO_APPLY=false
# Agent will show proposed actions without executing

See CI pipeline for automated testing.

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Monitoring & Observability

Health Check

curl http://localhost:8000/health

Audit Log

All agent decisions are logged:

curl http://localhost:8000/audit | jq '.'

Metrics (Optional)

The agent exposes Prometheus metrics at /metrics:

agent_incidents_total{type="k8s",resolved="true"} 42
agent_tool_calls_total{tool="kubectl_apply"} 18
agent_approval_requests_total{approved="true"} 12

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Extending the Agent

Add a Custom Collector

# collectors/my_platform.py
class MyPlatformCollector:
    """Collects logs from MyPlatform"""
    
    def __init__(self, api_token):
        self.client = MyPlatformClient(token=api_token)
    
    def collect(self, incident_data: dict) -> dict:
        """
        Args:
            incident_data: {
                "resource_id": "...",
                "timestamp": "...",
            }
        
        Returns:
            {
                "logs": [...],
                "metadata": {...},
                "recent_changes": [...]
            }
        """
        logs = self.client.get_logs(incident_data['resource_id'])
        return {
            "logs": logs,
            "metadata": {...}
        }

Add a Custom Tool

# tools/my_platform_tools.py
def restart_my_service(service_id: str, dry_run: bool = True) -> dict:
    """
    Restarts a service in MyPlatform
    
    Args:
        service_id: Service identifier
        dry_run: If True, only simulate the restart
    
    Returns:
        {"status": "success", "message": "...", "dry_run": True}
    """
    if dry_run:
        return {
            "status": "success",
            "message": f"Would restart service {service_id}",
            "dry_run": True
        }
    
    # Actual restart logic
    client = MyPlatformClient()
    result = client.restart_service(service_id)
    
    return {
        "status": "success" if result else "failed",
        "message": f"Restarted service {service_id}",
        "dry_run": False
    }

Register in Agent

# agent/core.py
from collectors.my_platform import MyPlatformCollector
from tools.my_platform_tools import restart_my_service

class DevOpsAgent:
    def __init__(self):
        # Register collector
        self.collectors['my_platform'] = MyPlatformCollector(
            api_token=os.getenv('MY_PLATFORM_TOKEN')
        )
        
        # Register tool
        self.tools.append({
            "name": "restart_my_service",
            "description": "Restarts a service in MyPlatform",
            "input_schema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "service_id": {"type": "string"},
                    "dry_run": {"type": "boolean", "default": True}
                },
                "required": ["service_id"]
            }
        })

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Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for:

• Code style guidelines
• Testing requirements
• PR process
• Development setup

Development Setup

# Install dev dependencies
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

# Run linting
black .
flake8 .
mypy .

# Run tests with coverage
pytest --cov=. tests/

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Documentation

Essential Reading

• SECURITY_POLICY.md - READ FIRST - Safety rules and blocked operations
• DEVSECOPS_GUIDE.md - DevSecOps best practices and compliance
• GETTING_STARTED.md - Quick start guide (15 minutes)

Detailed Guides

• Multi-Platform Guide - Complete platform configuration
• Deployment Guide - Production deployment for K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure
• Architecture - System design and architecture
• Contributing - How to contribute
• Extension Summary - Recent changes and features

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Security

Best Practices

1. Start with AUTO_APPLY=false: Review agent decisions for 1-2 weeks
2. Use least-privilege credentials: Limit IAM/RBAC permissions
3. Namespace isolation: Restrict K8s operations to specific namespaces
4. Audit regularly: Review /audit logs weekly
5. Rotate secrets: Use short-lived tokens where possible

Reporting Security Issues

Please report security vulnerabilities to: [e-mail]

Do not open public issues for security concerns.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Acknowledgments

• Built with Anthropic Claude for AI reasoning
• Inspired by the SRE community and incident response best practices
• Thanks to all contributors!

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Support & Community

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Slack: Join our community

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Roadmap

• More CI/CD platforms (CircleCI, TeamCity, Drone CI)
• Database diagnostics (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Cost optimization recommendations
• Security vulnerability scanning
• Integration with Datadog, New Relic, Grafana
• Custom runbooks and playbooks
• Multi-agent collaboration

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