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Cracking the Kubernetes Interview

You're reading from   Cracking the Kubernetes Interview Discover expert tips and best practices to ace your Kubernetes technical interviews

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835460030
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Vedmich Viktor Vedmich
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Alexander Dovnar Alexander Dovnar
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Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Kubernetes
2. Understanding Kubernetes from Containers to Orchestration FREE CHAPTER 3. Kubernetes Key Components and Their Functions 4. Part 2: Schedulers, Workloads, and Scaling
5. Exploring Kubernetes Basics 6. Principles of Scaling: Horizontal vs Vertical 7. Autoscaling in Action 8. Part 3: Networking, Services, and Security
9. Essentials of Kubernetes Networking 10. Kubernetes Network Architecture: Services and Ingresses 11. Storage: Persistence and CSI Drivers 12. Security Best Practices in Kubernetes and RBAC 13. Part 4: Deployment, Application Management, and GitOps
14. Real-World Deployment Scenarios and Continuous Deployment 15. Understanding GitOps: Principles and Practices 16. Part 5: Reliability, Monitoring, and Maintenance
17. Custom Resource Definitions and Operators 18. Ensuring High Availability and Reliability 19. Monitoring Best Practices 20. Backup, Maintenance, and Disaster Recovery in Kubernetes 21. Part 6: Troubleshooting and Best Practices
22. Real-World Troubleshooting Scenarios 23. Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them 24. Interview Stories from Authors 25. Other Books You May Enjoy
26. Index

The core architecture: Control plane and worker nodes

In technical interviews, questions about the Kubernetes control plane and the components it holds can be answered with the expected responses in almost any technical interview. Why? Because this, and only this, can give the interviewer an understanding of how you have prepared theoretically, and what other questions should follow based on your answers.

In this section, you’ll be able to answer (without going into deep technical details) how the Kubernetes cluster works, what its internals do, and how to troubleshoot core component failures.

A high-level overview of the manager–worker relationship

We mentioned the basic functionality of these components in the previous chapter. With this question, we want you to answer what components make up a cluster.

When asking this question, the interviewer usually expects you to describe the core components responsible for the cluster’s functionality...

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