How to use the DevOps Interview Flashcards
- 1. Choose topicsPick one topic or all of them, a round size, and whether to skip cards you already know.
- 2. Flip and gradeRead the question, answer aloud, then reveal the answer and mark it known or still learning.
- 3. Review your resultsMissed cards come back later in the round. At the end see your score by topic and download the cards to revise.
What the deck covers
This deck covers DevOps culture and tooling together, because interviews ask both why teams work this way and how. The 20 cards are grouped into 12 topics: Basics, Git, Containers, Docker, IaC, Config, Pipelines, Releases, Monitoring, SRE, Security, Linux. Answers are short on purpose: one or two sentences you can say out loud, which you then back up with an example from your own projects.
A card from the deck
Q: Blue-green vs canary deployment?
A: Blue-green runs two identical environments and switches traffic at once, with instant rollback. Canary sends a small share of traffic to the new version first and increases it if metrics stay healthy.
Be ready to say which you'd pick for a payment service (often canary, with automatic rollback on errors) and why.
How to study with it
- Build a small pipeline for a personal project; it gives you a story for half these cards.
- Practise the Linux troubleshooting card on a real VM.
- In the DevOps deck, cards you mark "still learning" come back three cards later in the same round, and the results screen lists them so you can download a revision sheet.
More questions from this deck
Other DevOps questions you'll meet include:
- What is CI/CD?
- What is a branching strategy?
- Image vs container?
- Declarative vs imperative configuration?
- How do you manage secrets in pipelines?
Frequently asked questions
Is Kubernetes covered?
Only briefly here. See the Kubernetes flashcards.
Which tools are assumed?
Common ones: Git, Docker, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible and Prometheus.
Are the DevOps interview flashcards free?
Yes. You can flip through every card of the DevOps interview flashcards without signing up. When you open your results for the first time, we ask once for your name and WhatsApp number; after that the DevOps interview flashcards and every other Uncodemy tool open straight away.