Beginner DevOps Interview Questions
7 questions
A backup script runs perfectly when you execute it by hand, but fails silently every night when cron runs it. How would you debug it?
BeginnerBashLinux8 min
What's the actual difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and how would you decide which one is the right fit for a given workload?
BeginnerCloud6 min
What's actually the difference between a container and a virtual machine, at the operating system level — not the marketing-slide version?
BeginnerContainersLinux7 min
What's actually the difference between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering — as practices, not just job titles — and how would you explain it to someone outside the team?
BeginnerDevops6 min
Two containers on the same Docker host can't talk to each other over the network, even though both are running. How would you debug the connection?
BeginnerDocker8 min
Two engineers are working on the same long-lived feature branch. One wants to rebase onto main daily, the other insists on merging main in. Who's right, and how do you decide?
BeginnerGit8 min
What's the actual difference between GitLab's Developer, Maintainer, and Owner roles in terms of what each one can do to a protected branch and CI/CD variables?
BeginnerGitLab6 min