Daily DevOps Interview Questions Day #65

Daily Interview Questions for SRE and DevOps engineers

Question of the Day:

This is definitely one of those questions where… if you say you have a few years of intimate Kubernetes experience… it should be very easy for you — or at the very least, familiar.

Here’s the setup:
We run CI/CD pipelines that spin up ephemeral environments in Kubernetes. Each run deploys resources via Helm, executes end-to-end tests, then runs a cleanup step: helm uninstall followed by deleting the namespace.

In this case, we’ve been trying to delete a namespace called test-env, but it’s been stuck in Terminating for quite some time. Let’s walk through it in a question/answer format the way you might encounter in an interview.