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Kubernetes and containers

Site Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes and containers questions

20 questions on Kubernetes and containers for site reliability engineers, easiest first.

Easy 3

Readiness vs liveness probeseasy
CrashLoopBackOffeasy
Logs from the crashed containereasy

Medium 9

PodDisruptionBudgetmedium
Exit code 137 in Kubernetesmedium
HPA shows unknown CPUmedium
A pod stuck in Pendingmedium
Errors during every rolloutmedium
Cutting Kubernetes cost safelymedium
What a ServiceMonitor doesmedium
kube-state-metrics or cAdvisormedium
Autoscaling at a flash salemedium

Hard 8

Throttled but not busyhard
Go service OOMKilled under loadhard
Random packet drops on a busy nodehard
A surprise network billhard
Which pods are evicted first?hard
Container takes 10 seconds to stophard
Container memory near its limithard
Many DNS queries per lookup in podshard

More Site Reliability Engineer skills

Linux and shell 193 SLOs and incident management 101 Observability and monitoring 74 Performance and debugging 66 Networking 30 Resilience and fault tolerance 21 Mobile app development 20 Web application security 16 Filesystem 15 Sli 12 Processes 11 Error Budget 10 Kernel 9 System design 9 Disk Io 7 Ssh 7 Signals 6 Logs 6 Cpu 5 Stakeholder management and communication 5 Boot 5 Incident response and malware 4 KPIs and business metrics 4 Infrastructure as code 4

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