Devops-Interviews

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⚡ Your Deployment Causes 30 Seconds of Downtime. What Went Wrong?

Kubernetes rolling updates don’t give you zero-downtime for free. There are four separate things you have to get right, and most clusters get at least one wrong.

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🔄 Someone kubectl apply'd a Hotfix Directly. How Do You Detect and Prevent It?

Manual kubectl in production is the Kubernetes equivalent of SSH’ing into a server and editing files. It works until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, nobody knows why.

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🛡️ How Do You Prevent a Compromised Pod From Calling Your Database?

Default Kubernetes is a flat network. Every pod can reach every other pod. In a cluster with ten services, that’s ten potential blast radiuses instead of one.

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🔑 Deploy to Kubernetes Without Storing Any Cluster Credentials in CI

A common interview question in 2026. If your answer is ‘kubeconfig in a CI secret’, you’re not wrong — but you’re also not getting the job.

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🤫 How Do You Handle Secrets in a GitOps Repository?

GitOps says Git is the source of truth. Secrets say don’t put them in Git. These two things appear to be in direct conflict. They’re not.