Docker Interview Questions

These Docker interview questions are examples of real tasks used by employers to screen job candidates such as web developers, front-end developers, back-end developers, and others that require knowledge of Docker containers and images.

1. Container Restart

Command Line Arguments Docker Compose

Easy

The automation team is testing their background Docker web server containers. They need to cleanly remove the existing containers without leaving any artifacts behind, then start new containers.

Complete the following docker commands to achieve these objectives:

# Gracefully end all processes in the containers
host> docker-compose stop
# Remove the containers and their anonymous volumes
host> docker-compose  -v
# Start containers in background
host> docker-compose up  apache php mysql

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2. Container Lifecycle

Command Line Arguments Life Cycle

Easy

As part of a load balancing scheme, your company uses multiple virtual machines which can provision and deprovision Docker containers as demand changes.

Complete the docker commands (with no additional arguments) that manage the lifecycle of a docker image.

When a virtual machine completes startup, it runs the following command to ready the custom container image:
```
docker create --name balanced-container company-image
```
When the load balancer detects high usage, it signals the virtual machine to make the container available for use. The VM runs the following command:
```
docker  balanced-container
```
The load balancer detects that a container has been underutilized for more than 15 minutes. It signals the VM to suspend the container to conserve CPU resources. The VM runs the command:
```
docker  balanced-container
```
Finding an increased load again, the load balancer signals the VM to awaken the container. The VM runs the command:
```
docker  balanced-container
```
After an hour of underutilization, the load balancer signals the VM to gracefully end all processes in the container to conserve RAM resources. The VM runs the command:
```
docker  balanced-container
```

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1. Container Restart

2. Container Lifecycle