Technical Senior Level

Explain your experience with container orchestration. How do you handle deployments, scaling, and health checks?

Quick Tip

Do not just list features. Describe how you configured health checks to prevent bad deploys and how auto-scaling handled traffic spikes in a real scenario.

What good answers include

Strong answers cover: Kubernetes concepts (pods, services, deployments, namespaces), deployment strategies (rolling update, blue-green, canary), horizontal pod autoscaling, liveness and readiness probes, resource limits, and secrets management. Best candidates discuss the operational complexity and when containers are not the right answer.

What interviewers are looking for

Senior DevOps/SRE question. Look for practical experience, not just certification knowledge. Ask: "When would you NOT use Kubernetes?" to test judgment.

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