GitLab Stack Creator

If you're spinning up Docker stacks in GitLab and tired of manually setting up the same directory structure every time, this handles the boilerplate. It scaffolds projects with the proper ./config, ./secrets, and ./_temporary folders, wires up git configuration, and drops in validation scripts and hooks so your stack follows best practices from the start. Built by rknall, who clearly got sick of doing this repetition manually. It's narrowly focused on GitLab stack projects specifically, so if you're working with a different orchestration setup or platform, you'll want to look elsewhere. Useful for teams that want consistency across their stack deployments without maintaining template repos.

GitHub stars: 58
last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add rknall/claude-skills --skill 'GitLab Stack Creator' --agent claude-code

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GitLab Stack Creator

Expert assistance for creating new GitLab stack projects with proper structure, git configuration, validation scripts, and comprehensive documentation.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be triggered when:

Creating a new GitLab stack project
Initializing a Docker stack with proper structure
Setting up a project with ./config, ./secrets, ./_temporary directories
Configuring git repository for stack projects
Setting up validation hooks and scripts
Bootstrapping a stack project with best practices

Core Principles

This skill follows the GitLab Stack Management patterns:

Everything configured through docker-compose.yml and ./config
Secrets stored in ./secrets and Docker secrets
docker-entrypoint.sh scripts only when containers don't support native secrets
All container files owned by the user running docker (no root-owned files)
./_temporary directory for transient setup files (cleaned up after use)
Complete validation before considering stack creation complete