As a DevOps Engineer I know not to trust ChatGPT, always fact check and make sure it makes sense. But with that major caveat I still find it a very helpful tool in many scenarios.

Here’s some things I like to ask it to do:

• Explain a concept
• Give me troubleshooting ideas
• Summarize a long document (especially yaml/kubernetes
• Answer a question I have about a specific document. Including, but not limited to, you can give it a long yaml file and ask it to tell you what a certain field is nested under. But now that I have a yaml plugin for my IDE, that’s an easier way to see that. I may write a post on Jetbrains plugins too.
• Evaluate my work to provide any suggestions
• Improve my documentation
• Identify issues with Kubernetes resources and yaml files. It doesn’t always work but you can copy it in and ask what’s wrong with it. It’s the most intelligent diff tool I’ve seen, it will compare your resource to known examples and attempt to not just show you every difference but to use context to see which of the differences are relevant. You can give it a specific document to refer to or let it use everything in its corpus.
• Variable naming. If it’s a challenging one, you can explain what the variable does and get suggestions. I found the suggested names were descriptive yet fairly concise and I like how it explained the reasoning behind them.
• Ask it for reassurance when you’re feeling discouraged! ^_^
• Just for fun. Behold the Dapr Kafka ^