Kubernetes Fundamentals and Deployments Questions

Core knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and the primitives used to run containerized workloads. Candidates should be able to explain pods, replica sets, deployments, services, ingresses, namespaces, and the role of ConfigMaps and Secrets, as well as storage volume types and mount semantics. Describe how to author manifest files, use command line tooling to deploy and inspect applications, implement rolling updates and rollbacks, and apply deployment strategies such as blue green and canary releases. Discuss resource requests and limits, liveness and readiness probes, basic networking concepts and service types, role based access control, and how to use Helm charts or other package managers. Include common troubleshooting steps for a failing pod such as reading logs, executing into containers, inspecting events, and interpreting status conditions.