GCP with AI AI Prompts
43 free, production-ready GCP with AI AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- GCP with AI Advanced
Binary Authorization & Supply-Chain Security Review Prompt
Review a GKE/Cloud Run Binary Authorization policy for enforcement gaps, attestation coverage, break-glass misuse, and admission-blocking failures — so only trusted, verified images run in production.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud Composer (Airflow) DAG Failure Debug Prompt
Diagnose failing Cloud Composer environments — DAGs that won't parse, tasks stuck in queued or up_for_retry, scheduler heartbeat gaps, and worker pods evicted under memory pressure.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud DNS Zone & DNSSEC Configuration Review Prompt
Review Cloud DNS managed zones for resolution failures, DNSSEC chain-of-trust breaks, private/public zone shadowing, split-horizon mistakes, and stale records before they cause an outage or SERVFAIL.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Dataflow Pipeline Performance & Autoscaling Debug Prompt
Diagnose slow or stalled Dataflow jobs — pipelines that won't autoscale, workers stuck at high system lag, hot keys skewing throughput, and streaming backlogs that grow faster than they drain.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Eventarc Trigger Routing Debug Prompt
Diagnose Eventarc triggers that never fire — events not reaching Cloud Run/Functions, permission gaps on the trigger service account, wrong event filters, and audit-log events that were never enabled.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GKE Gateway API & Ingress Config Review Prompt
Review GKE Gateway API and Ingress configuration for routing gaps, unhealthy backends, missing health checks, TLS/cert issues, and misapplied HTTPRoute rules before external traffic hits a 404 or 502.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Memorystore for Redis Performance & Failover Review Prompt
Review a Memorystore for Redis instance for latency spikes, eviction under memory pressure, failover behavior, and connection exhaustion — before it becomes a cache stampede that takes the app down.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Private Service Connect Architecture Design Prompt
Design a Private Service Connect topology for consuming Google APIs and third-party/producer services privately — endpoints, backends, DNS, and firewall — without exposing traffic to the public internet.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Vertex AI Endpoint & GPU Scaling Debug Prompt
Diagnose Vertex AI online prediction problems — endpoints that won't autoscale, GPU quota blocks on deploy, cold-start latency, and 429/resource-exhausted errors under load — before they page the on-call.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GKE Autoscaling: Cluster Autoscaler & HPA Debug Prompt
Diagnose GKE scaling failures — pods stuck Pending while nodes don't scale up, HPA that won't add replicas, and node pools that scale down too aggressively or not at all.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Hybrid Connectivity: Cloud VPN & Interconnect Debug Prompt
Troubleshoot hybrid connectivity to GCP — down HA VPN tunnels, Cloud Router BGP sessions that won't establish, missing or unadvertised routes, and asymmetric traffic between on-prem and a VPC.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Terraform Review: IaC Security & Drift Prompt
Review Terraform for GCP before apply — catch over-broad IAM bindings, public buckets, open firewall rules, unpinned providers, and dangerous plan changes that would replace stateful resources.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GKE Cluster Upgrade Strategy & Release Channel Prompt
Plan a safe GKE control-plane and node upgrade — release channels, maintenance windows, surge settings, and workload disruption budgets — so version bumps don't break APIs or evict critical pods.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Quota Increase & Capacity Planning Prompt
Turn a looming GCP quota wall into a defensible increase request and capacity plan — mapping the right quota metric, region, and limit to real growth so launches don't fail with RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Shared VPC Host & Service Project Design Prompt
Design a Shared VPC topology — host project, service projects, subnet sharing, and IAM — that centralizes networking without blocking teams, so GKE and Compute workloads land in the right subnets with least-privilege access.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Cloud Logging Incident Root-Cause Analysis Prompt
Work backward from a production incident through Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, and audit logs to find the root cause and the change that triggered it — correlating across services by trace and time, not eyeballing one log stream.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Cloud Monitoring Alert Policy & SLO Design Prompt
Design Cloud Monitoring alerting policies and SLOs that page on user-facing pain — not noisy threshold alerts — by choosing the right metric, condition, burn-rate windows, and notification routing.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Cloud NAT & Egress Connectivity Debug Prompt
Debug failed outbound connectivity from private GCP instances — Cloud NAT port exhaustion, dropped egress, Private Google Access gaps, and route/firewall blocks — by reasoning from NAT metrics and config instead of assigning public IPs.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Cloud Run Revision Rollout & Traffic-Split Failure Debug Prompt
Debug a Cloud Run deploy where the new revision won't go Ready, traffic won't shift, or a canary is serving errors — by reasoning from revision status, traffic config, and the readiness/health signals instead of redeploying blindly.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Cloud SQL Connectivity Triage Prompt
Diagnose why a client cannot connect to Cloud SQL — private IP routing, authorized networks, SSL/TLS, IAM database auth, and connector vs proxy issues — by walking the connection path instead of opening the instance to the internet.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Compute Engine Right-Sizing & Idle Reclamation Prompt
Right-size Compute Engine VMs and reclaim idle instances using Recommender machine-type suggestions, utilization metrics, and disk/IP waste — without breaking workloads that legitimately need the headroom.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GKE Autopilot Resource Right-Sizing & Cost Prompt
Right-size GKE Autopilot workloads by tuning pod requests, choosing the correct compute class, and removing the bin-packing waste that drives Autopilot bills — using actual usage metrics, not copied-in requests.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
GCP IAM Permission-Denied (403) Debug Prompt
Decode a specific GCP PERMISSION_DENIED / 403 error by tracing the exact missing permission back through the resource hierarchy, the calling principal, conditions, and deny policies — instead of guessing roles or granting Owner.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Resource Hierarchy & Asset Inventory Audit Prompt
Audit the GCP org/folder/project hierarchy and Cloud Asset Inventory for orphaned projects, inconsistent labels, lingering default service accounts, and public exposure — to find drift and risk across the estate, not one project at a time.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Secret Manager Access & Rotation Review Prompt
Review Secret Manager secrets for over-broad access, missing rotation, sprawling versions, and replication/CMEK gaps — so secrets follow least privilege and rotate without breaking the workloads that read them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Artifact Registry & Cloud Build Pipeline Hardening Prompt
Review a Cloud Build pipeline and Artifact Registry setup for least-privilege service accounts, image provenance, vulnerability scanning, and supply-chain safety instead of running builds as the default SA.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
BigQuery Cost & Slot Optimization Prompt
Cut BigQuery spend by reasoning from INFORMATION_SCHEMA job history — bytes scanned, slot contention, and partition/cluster gaps — instead of blindly buying reservations.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud Armor WAF & Rate-Limit Policy Review Prompt
Harden a Cloud Armor security policy — WAF rules, rate limiting, and bot defense — by reasoning from rule order, preconfigured-rule sensitivity, and preview-mode evidence instead of pasting in a blanket deny.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Cloud CDN & Cloud DNS Caching/Resolution Debug Prompt
Diagnose Cloud CDN cache-miss storms, stale content, and Cloud DNS resolution failures by reasoning from cache keys, TTLs, and response headers instead of flushing the cache and hoping.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud KMS Key Management & Rotation Review Prompt
Review Cloud KMS key rings, rotation, IAM, and CMEK usage so encryption keys follow least privilege and rotate safely without breaking access to data encrypted under old key versions.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud Spanner Schema & Hotspot Modeling Prompt
Design or review a Cloud Spanner schema for even key distribution, interleaving, and index choices so a globally distributed table doesn't hotspot or serialize on a monotonic key.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Load Balancer Backend & Health-Check Debug Prompt
Diagnose 502/503s and uneven traffic on GCP global and internal load balancers by reasoning from backend health, health-check config, and the firewall path instead of restarting backends.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Pub/Sub Delivery, Ordering & Dead-Letter Debug Prompt
Diagnose Pub/Sub message loss, duplicate delivery, ordering failures, and growing backlogs by reasoning from subscription metrics and config instead of guessing at ack deadlines.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
VPC Service Controls Perimeter Design Prompt
Design or debug a VPC Service Controls perimeter to stop data exfiltration from managed services like BigQuery and Cloud Storage, using dry-run mode and access levels so you don't lock out legitimate access.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
GCP Billing & Cost Optimization Review Prompt
Find real GCP savings — committed-use discounts, rightsizing, idle resources, and billing anomalies — by reasoning from billing export and Recommender data instead of cargo-culting reservations.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
GCP Cloud Logging & Monitoring MQL Query Builder Prompt
Turn a vague 'find me the errors' or 'alert when latency spikes' request into precise Log Explorer queries and Monitoring MQL/PromQL that return exactly the signal you need.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Cloud Run & Cloud Functions Cold-Start & Failure Debug Prompt
Debug Cloud Run / Cloud Functions cold starts, container startup failures, timeouts, and 5xx errors using revision config, concurrency, and logs — not blind redeploys.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
Cloud SQL Performance & Connection Tuning Prompt
Diagnose Cloud SQL slowness and connection exhaustion — slow queries, max_connections limits, connector vs proxy choices, and flag tuning — using Insights and metrics, not blind instance upsizing.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
Cloud Storage Bucket Security & Lifecycle Review Prompt
Audit a Cloud Storage bucket for public exposure, IAM/ACL sprawl, and missing lifecycle/retention rules — closing security gaps while cutting storage cost with the right class transitions.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GKE Troubleshooting: Workload Identity & Networking Prompt
Diagnose GKE failures — pods that can't reach GCP APIs, Workload Identity token errors, Autopilot scheduling rejections, and networking that breaks between nodes and the control plane.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP IAM Least-Privilege Binding Review Prompt
Audit IAM bindings across a project or folder to strip over-broad primitive roles, scope service accounts, and add IAM Conditions — without breaking the workloads that actually need access.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Advanced
GCP Org Policy & Security Command Center Triage Prompt
Triage Security Command Center findings and design Organization Policy constraints that prevent the misconfiguration class — turning a wall of findings into a prioritized, preventive fix plan.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - GCP with AI Intermediate
GCP VPC Firewall & Routing Connectivity Debug Prompt
Trace why one GCP resource can't reach another by walking firewall rules, routes, and priorities in order — instead of opening 0.0.0.0/0 in frustration.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
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About these GCP with AI AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of GCP with AI AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused GCP with AI assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production GCP with AI.
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