Shadowing Practice: Excellent 2 Years AWS DevOps Engineer Mock Interview with Questions and Answers | Cloud | Docker - Learn English Speaking with Video

hi welcome sarap to the interview

and yeah i'm putting a cv in front of me

and yeah so just to let you know

that this call will be recorded uh for on the social media like youtube and others

and that you are okay with

that yeah yeah i'm okay with it okay all right uh

so yep uh i've got your cv in front of me

so why don't we start up with your career progression and

and then we'll have some follow-up questions yeah like first of

all thanks a lot for this uh opportunity you know i

really appreciate it uh my name is uh i will start with how i got into the devops and cloud

technology domain so i did my bachelor's of engineering in mechanical field but whilst i I was in third year, I got interested into the computer science.

So then I started learning about the Python, basics of Python.

And then later during the COVID period, that's when I met my mentor.

He taught me a lot of DevOps and cloud technologies.

And the most important thing he did was not only taught, but he created my interest in that field genuinely.

So I really followed that.

And whilst I was in fourth year, I got my opportunity in one of the largest consultancy company in india

and since then i've been working there as a devops

and cloud engineer uh for two and two year

and four months as of now

so that's a little bit about my work uh related things

uh about my personal things i live in the town of

maharashya uh my hobbies are like i like to read books i also like to work out

and just stroll in the nature

so yeah that's a little bit about me awesome awesome all right

so i see from your resume with sort of that you have

experience in aws code pipeline cicd python

and lambda also used amazon quicksight for visualizations and dashboard

so how about uh how about docker

and kubernetes yeah i also know a docker

and Kubernetes okay all right all right let's start up with some of the aws questions

so i'll start right from the basics uh

so in terms of aws security

so there's something called as knuckles yeah uh can you tell me more about knuckles

and how does it how does it differ from subnets yeah

so knuckles are the firewalls uh applied at the subnet level

uh there is another thing called a security group in aws

which somehow relates to it secret but there is a difference

that knuckles are stateless so it means

that you have to specify specifically the inbound as well as outbound rule whether as the security groups

which are attached at the individual resource level like instances uh they are stateful

so you just have to mention like inbound and they will automatically gather

that outbound is also allowed so that's what an actor is right

now in terms of your ec2 uh there is something called as volumes which can be attached

right yes you've got elastic black block stores

and volumes okay what are the different types of volumes and

and what they're used for yeah

so like volumes are the like buses are mounted for having the persistent storage to our EC2 servers

and the block storage is the EBS that AWS offers

in terms of different types of volumes so there are like GP2

which are like SSD based then there are IOPS heavy volumes

so where you can have a if you want the have application

that has heavy read io then you can use the iops

type of volumes then there are also some machine learning related uh volumes i guess i don't remember them particularly

but yeah so these are some types of volumes so

i'll just give you a scenario and you can explain me on the on the questions on it

So let's say you've got a three tier or a four tier application.

And you are asked to design the application from scratch.

So you've got the app layer, you've got an API layer, you've got the business logic, you've got web layer, you've got databases, you're using S3.

So these are the same sort of application.

So in terms of cloud security how would you secure an application

and what are the different attributes

that you would have in your application to make it uh consistently secure okay

so let's start with the things that i will include uh

so first is database layer second is application layer

and third is suppose the client accessing the things from internet

so that's 3d

so i would probably use a api gateway application load violancer

in this architecture where i will put just the alb

or api gateway in the public subnet where it has access to the external internet

and i will put my app server in different private subnet

and i will put my database server in different private subnet

and then just connect my api gateway alb to the private web server

and web servers will have access to the database servers privately

and yeah like and the clients can access my application on on the ip address

or domain name of the alb which are mapped to it

so that is how i would uh like architect it okay are there any other security measures

that you can think of yeah like we can have the like

if your web server needs access to the database

and suppose your database is in rds

so you can have a proper im permissions i am in instance profile for your instances in web servers.

Also, you can have proper knuckles, the security groups following the least privileges rule as the AWS suggested.

So those are some of the security things that you can take in consideration.

Anything else that you can think of?

You can also add the AWS WAP or something like that

if you want the extra security if you want ddos protection

so maybe you can use vap and uh

if you want to like check the your instances for like uh security vulnerability then maybe use the aws inspector

or something like

that okay last chance to say something else ah looking for one more point you did well

but one more point there is uh ppc there is subnet it's alb uh security groups is there im is there

uh maybe like storing the database passwords or something like

that you can use the secrets manager for

that yeah how about how about you how would you secure a data tell me about data encryption So data encryption,

if it's in transit, then you can use the obviously SSL for that SSL certificates.

And if it's at the rest, then you can, in terms of AWS, you can use a service like AWS KMS, where you can have different options for managing the keys.

Either AWS can manage it or like you can manage it and you can encrypt the data at rest using both keys.

Okay.

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Can you tell me the difference between server-side encryption

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and client-side encryption yeah i would say server-side encryption is something

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that uh we do like as a app server where like suppose data is address

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so that's where you are uh encrypting your data

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so that's i would say server-side encryption and client-side encryption is something

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that if client is sending the data then you're using the ssl uh key that

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public key to encrypt the data so i would say that would be client-setting okay

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all right uh now coming back to tell me tell me why would you why would you need auto scaling

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and what are the different types of auto scalings available uh

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so auto scaling is required if you have a varying terms of traffic to your applications

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and you want to automatically scale your instances

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or containers whatever uh type of deployment you have done and uh

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so you don't need manual intervention suppose the traffic is uh exceeding beyond uh what your cp levels can handle

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so you don't need to manually increase go

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and increase the number of servers and set up everything

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so for that we can use something like auto scaling groups where you already have the pre-configured launch templates

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that uh and you can give it a various metrics

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so asg can scale based on like a metric base

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so like uh suppose average cpu utilization it can also you

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like scale based on maybe number of requests going to per instance

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so that is another thing

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or you can create your own custom metric uh whatever you want and then scale based using that metric for your needs.

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Okay.

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Now, have you done any sort of monitoring on any applications?

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I have not done as per se, but I use CloudWatch whenever I like require to like check something if something has happened or something,

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but I haven't done specifically monitoring.

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I do created the dashboards using quicksight uh uh

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which is the native aws services where we have monitored the like things like cost of our accounts

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and like uh different s3 bucket size

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and everything else okay all right can you explain me this term connection draining connection draining

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so basically it means

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that your connection is going to die like it's it's finishing up all the things

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and it's draining it's removing the connection so what does it do

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uh connection training uh you're talking in terms of specific something

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or just general term connection so so if an application is going to die what does the connection draining do

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uh so it if there are any pending requests it will finish up those requests

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and then it will go down it will close

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that connection okay yep right all right uh now let's talk something about on the docker

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and kubernetes so we do we do have docker can you explain me the role of kubernetes in docker

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so kubernetes the docker container orchestration platform what it means is

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that it comes on top of docker

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so docker natively does does not provide things like auto scaling auto healing

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or uh maybe load balancer type of things uh

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which the any enterprise level of application would require

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so that's where a kubernetes come it adds a lot of features

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that an enterprise require in order to operate their application uh docker does have something called docker swarm

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but it's not i would say uh like uh fulfills the

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requirement needed for the enterprise level of application you can use it for a small application

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but i won't say for enterprise okay

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so now in kubernetes there is something called as image pull policy yeah okay can you tell me about that

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so image pull policy is uh suppose you have created a docker file

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and you want to specify your docker file that

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when do you pull the image so you can mention in image pool policy

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that if the image is not present locally then you can pull it from the registry

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okay and what are the different values that it accepts ah i know one

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because i have used that one that is

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if not present in current repository

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but for others maybe i'll need to like look up in documentation yeah that's all right

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so there are two more always and never yeah yeah all right

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so what do you understand by service in kubernetes and how many different types of services are there

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uh so service is used uh to offer features like i said load balancing It also has a feature called auto discovery.

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So it automatically discovers the new instances coming up in your cluster for that specific application.

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And it does that by using the thing called as selectors and labels.

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Our services has three types.

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The first is the cluster IP, which is default.

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It means that whatever service you are exposing to the external world, sorry, whatever services you're exposing, it's only available within the cluster itself.

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Second is the node port, which means that the services are available to the clients

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or the servers that has access to the node on which the Kubernetes cluster is running.

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And third is the load balancer where the cloud providers come

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in picture where you can expose it to the external world

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by using external application load balances like alb all right now in kubernetes you have got deployments and you've got demon sets

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yeah can you tell me the difference between both of them

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i remember deployment i don't remember demon set to be honest the deployment is basically for uh

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if you want to deploy your application

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and have the capability as i say auto healing or auto scaling so that's when you can use our deployment In deployment,

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you can mention different strategies like rolling deployment or maybe blue-green deployment, something like that.

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So that's what we use the deployment.

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I can't remember Devon set.

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I have read about that, but I have not used it.

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All right, so deployment makes the pod available in any node, but Devon set, it makes sure that the replica runs in each and every node in the custom.

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Okay, okay.

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Okay.

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Now about RDS, can you tell me the different types of SQL and NoSQL databases and what's the difference between them?

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RDS is the service offered by AWS called Relational Database Services.

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So relational means the SQL, which means the structured databases.

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So that has various things like PostgreSQL, then MySQL, MSSQL.

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like that.

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And the other type of database service is the NoSQL type, which is things like DynamoDB or like MongoDB.

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So where your data is not structured

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and the data is stored in a key value kind of format rather than the structured column-wise format in SQL.

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Okay.

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Any more differences that you can think of?

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You can like, NoSQL is very scalable, like DynamoDB, you can store like millions and billions of record in it.

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And it's very resilient in terms of it, whereas your MySQL is not meant for that purpose.

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all right

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so now coming back to your experience can you tell me

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about a about a scenario where you really struggled in some of the cases

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or something that was very hard to do and then what happened to

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that finally did you achieve it or not okay um

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so yeah um like recently there was a once as i might have mentioned in my resume

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that i've also worked on security things so there was recently one finding

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that came that our clients had lots of lambda functions running on the aws lambda

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and all of them were using the runtimes

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which were deprecated by the aws so

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that means there were no security patches nothing

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and it could be vulnerable to the security vulnerabilities

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and they were around 1300 functions which our clients had on lambda

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and uh no one like i took the responsibility to upgrade it then uh

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and 850 were around pythons and rest of the were of node.js

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so for node.js i took help of someone else in my

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team who uh has the experience on node.js whether as python i myself have uh the experience

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so i did them on my own so the challenges i faced in

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that was their lambda so there are two times the types of functions

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so one that uses the layers and one

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that does not use this layer so the one

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that does not use this layer it was easy to upgrade them

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so i just created a simple python script and

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because the python syntax for 3.7 and 3.9 was almost similar there were no differences

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or nothing that needs to be changed so

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that i completed like in just few days

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and then there were the next set of functions

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that were the layers one saying

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that i had to like done do some manual things also where like i automated the process of creating

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and updating layers by using the aws cli so

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layers are updated

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but then i had to contact to the various team those were handling those applications uh those functions

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and then yeah so it was like a big process

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and at first i thought like 1300 functions that's a lot

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and like how can i complete this but it needed to do

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that so yeah i completed it and i'm almost at the end

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so i have around 150 functions remaining out of those 1300

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and yeah i will be finishing it in just few days okay that.

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All right, I think I'm done with the questions and answers.

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So my feedback to you that you did pretty well.

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You answered almost all the questions.

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And yep, so I'll be closing up this recording now.

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And I'll be giving you more feedback after the recording is done.

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Thanks for your time.

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Yeah, yeah, thank you.

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Thank you.

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