Kubernetes (Interview Essentials)

Kubernetes questions test operational intuition: scheduling, reliability, and debugging.

Core primitives

• Pods, Deployments
• Services and Ingress
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• autoscaling (HPA) basics

Common failure modes

• misconfigured probes causing crash loops
• resource limits too low/high
• networking and DNS issues

Debugging approach

• check pod status/events
• check logs
• verify service endpoints
• isolate config changes