Kubernetes

All interview questions related to Kubernetes

16 Questions
4 Categories
11 Intermediate5 Advanced
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📞 Phone Screen
Kubernetes Pod Stuck in Pending
Intermediate

A pod is stuck in Pending state. What are the common causes and troubleshooting steps?

2 minPhone
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📞 Phone Screen
Kubernetes Service Types
Intermediate

Briefly explain ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes and when to use each.

2 minPhone
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📞 Phone Screen
ConfigMap vs Secret in Kubernetes
Intermediate

What is the difference between a ConfigMap and a Secret in Kubernetes, and when do you use each?

2 minPhone
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📞 Phone Screen
K8s Readiness vs Liveness Probes
Intermediate

What is the difference between readiness and liveness probes in Kubernetes?

2 minPhone
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📞 Phone Screen
Kubernetes Ingress vs Service
Intermediate

What is the difference between Kubernetes Ingress and Service, and when would you use each?

2 minPhone
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Kubernetes Pod Restart Loop Troubleshooting
Intermediate

A Kubernetes pod is stuck in a restart loop. Walk me through your systematic approach to diagnose and fix this issue.

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Investigating High CPU Usage in Kubernetes Pods
Advanced

Your production Kubernetes cluster shows unusually high CPU usage in multiple pods. Walk me through your investigation and mitigation steps.

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Designing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Strategy
Advanced

Describe how you would design a Kubernetes architecture for multi-region high availability and low latency.

5 minTechnical
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🔬 Technical Deep Dive
Securing Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespaces
Advanced

Design a secure multi-tenant Kubernetes setup. How do you isolate workloads and enforce policy across namespaces?

5 minTechnical
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🏗️ System Design
Design a Monitoring System
Advanced

Design a monitoring and alerting system for a microservices architecture running on Kubernetes. Consider metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.

45 minSystem-Design
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Kubernetes Pod Stuck in Pending
Intermediate

A pod has been stuck in Pending state for over 15 minutes. Walk me through how you would troubleshoot and resolve this issue.

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Node Disk Full
Intermediate

One of your production nodes is reporting 100% disk usage and workloads are failing. How do you investigate and resolve this?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Service in CrashLoopBackOff
Intermediate

A Kubernetes service keeps restarting with CrashLoopBackOff. How do you debug and resolve this?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Container Image Pulls Throttled by Registry
Intermediate

New pods are failing with ImagePullBackOff and registry logs show rate limiting/throttling. How do you restore service quickly and prevent recurrence?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
Container OOMKilled Repeatedly
Intermediate

A container is consistently OOMKilled under normal workload. How do you debug and fix it?

10 minScenario
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🔧 Troubleshooting Scenarios
etcd Disk Latency Causing Cluster Issues
Advanced

Your Kubernetes etcd cluster shows high fsync latency, causing API server slowness. How do you troubleshoot and resolve?

15 minScenario
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