General DevOps Engineer interview prep
4 live roles at ZetaCI/CD, cloud, containers, Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code — the DevOps / SRE interview for cloud-native and scaling teams.
Typical DevOps Engineer interview rounds
- 1 Linux & scripting. Shell scripting, permissions, processes and networking.
- 2 CI/CD & automation. Pipelines, build/release flow and IaC.
- 3 Cloud & containers. AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker and Kubernetes.
- 4 Troubleshooting / scenario. Debug a failing deployment or a production incident.
Commonly-asked DevOps Engineer questions
- What is the difference between continuous integration, delivery and deployment?
- Explain how Docker works and the difference between an image and a container.
- What is Kubernetes and what problems does it solve?
- Explain the difference between a Kubernetes Deployment, Pod and Service.
- What is infrastructure as code, and why use Terraform?
- How would you set up a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices app?
- How do you troubleshoot a server that's running out of memory?
- Explain blue-green vs canary deployments.