DevOps, SRE & Cloud interview questions, by topic.
Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, observability and more — DevOps, SRE, Cloud and Platform engineering.
DevOps Fundamentals
Core DevOps concepts, culture, practices, and toolchain essentials.
AWS & Cloud Infrastructure
EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, and cloud architecture patterns.
Kubernetes & EKS
Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, RBAC, Helm, and production cluster management.
Docker & Containerization
Dockerfile best practices, multi-stage builds, Docker Compose, container security.
CI/CD & Release Engineering
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, deployment strategies, feature flags.
Terraform & IaC
Terraform modules, state management, workspaces, drift detection, Atlantis.
Linux Administration
Process management, file systems, networking, systemd, performance analysis.
Networking, DNS & TLS
TCP/IP, DNS resolution, TLS handshakes, load balancers, CDN, service mesh.
SRE & Observability
SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, metrics, traces, logs, Prometheus, Grafana.
Production Incidents
Incident response, postmortems, runbooks, on-call, escalation procedures.
Security, IAM & Compliance
Least privilege, secrets management, RBAC, audit logs, compliance frameworks.
Infrastructure System Design
Large-scale infrastructure design, trade-offs, capacity planning, HA patterns.
Leadership & Judgement
Pushing back, running incidents, communicating with executives, auditors and partners, on-call health.