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About this interview
A technical interview on Containers, Kubernetes, and IaC, pitched at the medium level. A voice AI interviewer leads the conversation, adapts its questions to your answers, keeps you on topic, and afterward gives you honest, specific feedback on where you were strong and where to improve. Expect roughly 30 minutes.
What you'll be assessed on
Explain container primitives (namespaces, cgroups, layers) and contrast containers with VMs
Describe Kubernetes control-plane and data-plane components and how a pod is scheduled and started
Articulate Kubernetes production patterns: resource limits, health probes, PodDisruptionBudgets, rolling updates
Explain Infrastructure as Code principles with Terraform: state management, plan/apply lifecycle, module design
Distinguish GitOps from traditional CI/CD and describe the operator reconciliation pattern
Topics covered
Container PrimitivesKubernetes ArchitectureKubernetes WorkloadsKubernetes NetworkingKubernetes Production PatternsKubernetes ConfigurationKubernetes SecurityKubernetes StorageIaC PrinciplesTerraformGitOpsKubernetes PackagingKubernetes TroubleshootingKubernetes Operations
A few sample questions
Just examples to set expectations - the real interview has many more and adapts to your responses.
“What is a container, and how does it differ from a virtual machine at the operating-system level?
“What is a PodDisruptionBudget, and in what situations is it critical to have one?
“What is the difference between Terraform's 'terraform import' and 'terraform taint', and when would you use each?