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DevOps interview questions

Focus on CI/CD, containers, cloud and real‑world troubleshooting scenarios.

Question sets

Foundations

  • What does DevOps mean to you and why is it needed?
  • Explain the difference between continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • How would you structure Git branches for a product team?
  • What kind of metrics do you track for a healthy pipeline?
  • How do you roll back a bad deployment safely?

Containers & Kubernetes

  • Explain the lifecycle of a Docker container.
  • What problems do Kubernetes solve compared to plain Docker?
  • How do you handle configuration and secrets in Kubernetes?
  • What is a readiness probe and why is it important?
  • Describe a strategy for zero‑downtime deployments.

Cloud & reliability

  • How would you design logging and monitoring for microservices?
  • What is the difference between metrics, logs and traces?
  • Describe how you would investigate high error rates in production.
  • How do you approach cost optimization for cloud infrastructure?
  • Explain the concept of infrastructure as code with one tool you know.

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