Practical DevOps Interviews

A curated, community-driven collection of real-world DevOps interview questions — focused on the internals and the "why" behind the tools, not just surface-level definitions.

Every question in this repo is vetted to reflect what senior engineers and hiring managers actually ask in technical interviews.

Topics

| Topic | Folder | |---|---| | Kubernetes | kubernetes/ | | Docker | docker/ | | Terraform | terraform/ | | CI/CD | cicd/ | | Networking | networking/ | | Observability | observability/ | | Git | git/ | | Server | server/ | | AWS | aws/ | | Azure | azure/ | | GCP | gcp/ | | Linux | linux/ | | Databases | database/ | | Jenkins | jenkins/ | | Load Balancing | loadbalancer/ | | System Design | system%20design/ |

Who This Is For

• Engineers preparing for DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering interviews
• Interviewers building question banks
• Anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of how DevOps tools work under the hood

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a question or new topic.

License

MIT