- What is Continuous Integration?
- What is Continuous Deployment?
- Can you describe an example of a CI (and/or CD) process starting the moment a developer submitted a change/PR to a repository?
- What is Continuous Delivery?
- What is difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?
- What CI/CD best practices are you familiar with? Or what do you consider as CI/CD best practice?
- You are given a pipeline and a pool with 3 workers: virtual machine, baremetal and a container. How will you decide on which one of them to run the pipeline?
- Where do you store CI/CD pipelines? Why?
- How do you perform plan capacity for your CI/CD resources? (e.g. servers, storage, etc.)
- How would you structure/implement CD for an application which depends on several other applications?
- How do you measure your CI/CD quality? Are there any metrics or KPIs you are using for measuring the quality?
- What is Jenkins? What have you used it for?
- What are the advantages of Jenkins over its competitors? Can you compare it to one of the following systems?
Travis
Bamboo
Teamcity
CircleCI - What are the limitations or disadvantages of Jenkins?
Explain the following:
Job
Build
Plugin
Node or Worker
Executor - What plugins have you used in Jenkins?
- Have you used Jenkins for CI or CD processes? Can you describe them?
- What type of jobs are there? Which types have you used?
- How did you report build results to users? What ways are there to report the results?
- You need to run unit tests every time a change submitted to a given project. Describe in details how your pipeline would look like and what will be executed in each stage
- How to secure Jenkins?
- Describe how do you add new nodes (agents) to Jenkins
- How to acquire multiple nodes for one specific build?
- Whenever a build fails, you would like to notify the team owning the job regarding the failure and provide failure reason. How would you do that?
- There are four teams in your organization. How to prioritize the builds of each team? So the jobs of team x will always run before team y for example
- If you are managing a dozen of jobs, you can probably use the Jenkins UI. But how do you manage the creation and deletion of hundreds of jobs every week/month?
- What are some of Jenkins limitations?
- What is the different between a scripted pipeline to declarative pipeline? Which type are you using?
- How would you implement an option of a starting a build from a certain stage and not from the beginning?
- Do you have experience with developing a Jenkins plugin? Can you describe this experience?
- Have you written Jenkins scripts? If yes, what for and how they work?
- What is a Workflow in GitHub Actions?
- What is a Runner in GitHub Actions?
- What is a Job in GitHub Actions?
- What is an Action in GitHub Actions?
- In GitHub Actions workflow, what the ‘on’ attribute/directive is used for?
- True or False? In Github Actions, jobs are executed in parallel by deafult
- How to create dependencies between jobs so one job runs after another?
- How to add a Workflow to a repository?
I’m Rajesh Kumar, a DevOps, SRE, DevSecOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering expert passionate about sharing practical knowledge, real-world experiences, and industry best practices. I have worked at Cotocus and regularly write about technology, travel, investing, health, product reviews, and digital marketing through my various platforms.
I publish technical articles at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark, stock market insights at Stocks Mantra, health and fitness guidance at My Medic Plus, product reviews at TrueReviewNow, and SEO and digital marketing strategies at Wizbrand.
Find Trusted Cardiac Hospitals
Compare heart hospitals by city and services — all in one place.
Explore Hospitals
