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DevOps Engineer interview questions: the 8 to ask

A DevOps engineer automates how applications are shipped and run, so they are fast, reliable and safe.

  1. 1.How do you design a zero-downtime deployment pipeline?
  2. 2.How do you manage secrets?
  3. 3.A pod keeps restarting: how do you diagnose it?
  4. 4.How do you structure Terraform across environments?
  5. 5.Which SLOs would you set for an API?
  6. 6.How do you run a post-mortem?
  7. 7.How do you cut a cluster's cost?
  8. 8.Blue/green or canary: when do you choose which?

Tip: for every answer, ask for a concrete example (situation, action, result). An answer without an example is worth half.

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