💡 I’ve interviewed 100 DevOps engineers. Most of them say, “I’ve done K8s in production.” But when the real questions come in, they freeze. Here’s what I ask 1. How does DNS resolution work inside a pod? → And what do you check when a service isn’t reachable by name? 2. Walk me through what the controller manager does during a Deployment. → No rollout status. Reconciliation logic. 3. What happens if a node with local storage gets autoscaled down? → Be careful. This one causes data loss in prod more often than you’d think. 4. Post-deploy, latency spikes for 30% of users. No errors. No logs. What now? → Your answer reveals if you know how to triage chaos. 5. How do you enforce runtime security in Kubernetes? → PSP? AppArmor? OPA? Most people just hope for the best. 6. HPA vs VPA vs Karpenter; when would you NOT use each? → Bonus: How would you simulate HPA behavior in staging? 7. Tell me about the last outage you debugged in Kubernetes. → No postmortem? You weren’t there. If you’re reading this and thinking, “I should know this…” That’s your signal to stop winging it. #Kubernetes #DevOpsInterviews #RealTalkDevOps #SREThinking #CI_CD