Practice & Interview Prep¶
Hands-on exercises from devops-exercises — 2,600+ Q&A across the full stack.
By Topic¶
Infrastructure & IaC¶
Kubernetes & Containers¶
CI/CD & GitOps¶
Cloud Platforms¶
Observability¶
Databases & Messaging¶
Core Skills¶
Security & Architecture¶
Interview Prep Strategy¶
Week 1 — Core foundations¶
- [ ] Linux: file system, permissions, processes, signals → Linux exercises
- [ ] Shell scripting: loops, functions, error handling → Shell exercises
- [ ] Git: branching, rebasing, conflict resolution → Git exercises
Week 2 — Containers & Orchestration¶
- [ ] Containers: images, networking, volumes → Containers
- [ ] Kubernetes: pods, deployments, services, ingress, RBAC → K8s exercises
- [ ] Cloud fundamentals → Cloud exercises
Week 3 — IaC & CI/CD¶
- [ ] Terraform: core workflow, state, modules → Terraform exercises
- [ ] CI/CD pipeline construction → CI/CD exercises
- [ ] Ansible for config management → Ansible exercises
Week 4 — Cloud & Observability¶
- [ ] AWS core services → AWS exercises
- [ ] Observability concepts → Observability exercises
- [ ] Databases and Kafka → DB exercises
Quick Self-Assessment¶
| Area | Score | Exercises |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | /5 | Linux |
| Kubernetes | /5 | Kubernetes |
| Terraform | /5 | Terraform |
| CI/CD | /5 | CI/CD |
| AWS | /5 | AWS |
| Observability | /5 | Observability |
| Security | /5 | Security |
| Databases | /5 | Databases |
Tool Reference¶
When you need "what tool does X" → devops-collection
Covers: backups, CI/CD, configuration management, monitoring, logging, messaging, databases, service discovery, web servers.
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