Jenkins Q&A
Jenkins Q&A
Jenkins Q&A
The differences between the two are listed down in the table below.
DevOps vs Agile
Features DevOps Agile
According to me, this answer should start by explaining the general market
trend. Instead of releasing big sets of features, companies are trying to see if
small features can be transported to their customers through a series of
release trains. This has many advantages like quick feedback from
customers, better quality of software etc. which in turn leads to high customer
satisfaction. To achieve this, companies are required to:
If I have to test your knowledge on DevOps, you should know the difference
between Agile and DevOps. The next question is directed towards that.
Agile is a set of values and principles about how to produce i.e. develop
software. Example: if you have some ideas and you want to turn those ideas
into working software, you can use the Agile values and principles as a way to
do that. But, that software might only be working on a developer’s laptop or in
a test environment. You want a way to quickly, easily and repeatably move
that software into production infrastructure, in a safe and simple way. To do
that you need DevOps tools and techniques.
Now remember, you have included DevOps tools in your previous answer so
be prepared to answer some questions related to that.
Q4. Which are the top DevOps tools? Which tools have you worked on?
You can also mention any other tool if you want, but make sure you include
the above tools in your answer.
The second part of the answer has two possibilities:
1. If you have experience with all the above tools then you can say that I
have worked on all these tools for developing good quality software and
deploying those softwares easily, frequently, and reliably.
2. If you have experience only with some of the above tools then mention
those tools and say that I have specialization in these tools and have an
overview about the rest of the tools.
Given below is a generic logical flow where everything gets automated for
seamless delivery. However, this flow may vary from organization to
organization as per the requirement.
For this answer, you can use your past experience and explain how DevOps
helped you in your previous job. If you don’t have any such experience, then
you can mention the below advantages.
Technical benefits:
Business benefits:
According to me, the most important thing that DevOps helps us achieve is to
get the changes into production as quickly as possible while minimizing risks
in software quality assurance and compliance. This is the primary objective of
DevOps. Learn more in this DevOps tutorial blog.
However, you can add many other positive effects of DevOps. For example,
clearer communication and better working relationships between teams i.e.
both the Ops team and Dev team collaborate together to deliver good quality
software which in turn leads to higher customer satisfaction.
Q8. Explain with a use case where DevOps can be used in industry/ real-
life.
There are many industries that are using DevOps so you can mention any of
those use cases, you can also refer the below example:
Etsy is a peer-to-peer e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage
items and supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items. Etsy
struggled with slow, painful site updates that frequently caused the site to go
down. It affected sales for millions of Etsy’s users who sold goods through
online market place and risked driving them to the competitor.
With the help of a new technical management team, Etsy transitioned from its
waterfall model, which produced four-hour full-site deployments twice weekly,
to a more agile approach. Today, it has a fully automated deployment
pipeline, and its continuous delivery practices have reportedly resulted in
more than 50 deployments a day with fewer disruptions.
For this answer, share your past experience and try to explain how flexible
you were in your previous job. You can refer the below example:
DevOps engineers almost always work in a 24/7 business-critical online
environment. I was adaptable to on-call duties and was available to take up
real-time, live-system responsibility. I successfully automated processes to
support continuous software deployments. I have experience with
public/private clouds, tools like Chef or Puppet, scripting and automation with
tools like Python and PHP, and a background in Agile.
DevOps is a process
Agile equals DevOps?
We need a separate DevOps group
Devops will solve all our problems
DevOps means Developers Managing Production
DevOps is Development-driven release management
1. DevOps is not development driven.
2. DevOps is not IT Operations driven.
We can’t do DevOps – We’re Unique
We can’t do DevOps – We’ve got the wrong people
This is probably the easiest question you will face in the interview. My
suggestion is to first give a definition of Version control. It is a system that
records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific
versions later. Version control systems consist of a central shared repository
where teammates can commit changes to a file or set of file. Then you can
mention the uses of version control.
1. With Version Control System (VCS), all the team members are allowed
to work freely on any file at any time. VCS will later allow you to merge
all the changes into a common version.
2. All the past versions and variants are neatly packed up inside the VCS.
When you need it, you can request any version at any time and you’ll
have a snapshot of the complete project right at hand.
3. Every time you save a new version of your project, your VCS requires
you to provide a short description of what was changed. Additionally,
you can see what exactly was changed in the file’s content. This allows
you to know who has made what change in the project.
4. A distributed VCS like Git allows all the team members to have
complete history of the project so if there is a breakdown in the central
server you can use any of your teammate’s local Git repository.
This question is asked to test your branching experience so tell them about
how you have used branching in your previous job and what purpose does it
serves, you can refer the below points:
Feature branching
A feature branch model keeps all of the changes for a particular feature
inside of a branch. When the feature is fully tested and validated by
automated tests, the branch is then merged into master.
Task branching
In this model each task is implemented on its own branch with the task
key included in the branch name. It is easy to see which code
implements which task, just look for the task key in the branch name.
Release branching
Once the develop branch has acquired enough features for a release,
you can clone that branch to form a Release branch. Creating this
branch starts the next release cycle, so no new features can be added
after this point, only bug fixes, documentation generation, and other
release-oriented tasks should go in this branch. Once it is ready to ship,
the release gets merged into master and tagged with a version number.
In addition, it should be merged back into develop branch, which may
have progressed since the release was initiated.
In the end tell them that branching strategies varies from one organization to
another, so I know basic branching operations like delete, merge, checking
out a branch etc.
You can just mention the VCS tool that you have worked on like this: “I have
worked on Git and one major advantage it has over other VCS tools like SVN
is that it is a distributed version control system.”
Distributed VCS tools do not necessarily rely on a central server to store all
the versions of a project’s files. Instead, every developer “clones” a copy of a
repository and has the full history of the project on their own hard drive.
Q5. What is Git?
I will suggest that you attempt this question by first explaining about the
architecture of git as shown in the below diagram. You can refer to the
explanation given below:
There can be two answers to this question so make sure that you include both
because any of the below options can be used depending on the situation:
Remove or fix the bad file in a new commit and push it to the remote
repository. This is the most natural way to fix an error. Once you have
made necessary changes to the file, commit it to the remote repository
for that I will use
git commit -m “commit message”
Create a new commit that undoes all changes that were made in the
bad commit.to do this I will use a command
git revert <name of bad commit>
There are two options to squash last N commits into a single commit. Include
both of the below mentioned options in your answer:
If you want to write the new commit message from scratch use the
following command
git reset –soft HEAD~N &&
git commit
If you want to start editing the new commit message with a
concatenation of the existing commit messages then you need to
extract those messages and pass them to Git commit for that I will use
git reset –soft HEAD~N &&
git commit –edit -m”$(git log –format=%B –reverse .HEAD@{N})”
Q9. What is Git bisect? How can you use it to determine the source of a
(regression) bug?
I will suggest you to first give a small definition of Git bisect, Git bisect is used
to find the commit that introduced a bug by using binary search. Command for
Git bisect is
git bisect <subcommand> <options>
Now since you have mentioned the command above, explain what this
command will do, This command uses a binary search algorithm to find which
commit in your project’s history introduced a bug. You use it by first telling it a
“bad” commit that is known to contain the bug, and a “good” commit that is
known to be before the bug was introduced. Then Git bisect picks a commit
between those two endpoints and asks you whether the selected commit is
“good” or “bad”. It continues narrowing down the range until it finds the exact
commit that introduced the change.
Q10. What is Git rebase and how can it be used to resolve conflicts in a
feature branch before merge?
According to me, you should start by saying git rebase is a command which
will merge another branch into the branch where you are currently working,
and move all of the local commits that are ahead of the rebased branch to the
top of the history on that branch.
Now once you have defined Git rebase time for an example to show how it
can be used to resolve conflicts in a feature branch before merge, if a feature
branch was created from master, and since then the master branch has
received new commits, Git rebase can be used to move the feature branch to
the tip of master.
The command effectively will replay the changes made in the feature branch
at the tip of master, allowing conflicts to be resolved in the process. When
done with care, this will allow the feature branch to be merged into master
with relative ease and sometimes as a simple fast-forward operation.
Q11. How do you configure a Git repository to run code sanity checking
tools right before making commits, and preventing them if the test fails?
I will suggest you to first give a small introduction to sanity checking, A sanity
or smoke test determines whether it is possible and reasonable to continue
testing.
Now explain how to achieve this, this can be done with a simple script related
to the pre-commit hook of the repository. The pre-commit hook is triggered
right before a commit is made, even before you are required to enter a commit
message. In this script one can run other tools, such as linters and perform
sanity checks on the changes being committed into the repository.
Finally give an example, you can refer the below script:
#!/bin/sh
files=$(git diff –cached –name-only –diff-filter=ACM | grep ‘.go$’)
if [ -z files ]; then
exit 0
fi
unfmtd=$(gofmt -l $files)
if [ -z unfmtd ]; then
exit 0
fi
echo “Some .go files are not fmt’d”
exit 1
This script checks to see if any .go file that is about to be committed needs to
be passed through the standard Go source code formatting tool gofmt. By
exiting with a non-zero status, the script effectively prevents the commit from
being applied to the repository.
Q12. How do you find a list of files that has changed in a particular
commit?
For this answer instead of just telling the command, explain what exactly this
command will do so you can say that, To get a list files that has changed in a
particular commit use command
git diff-tree -r {hash}
Given the commit hash, this will list all the files that were changed or added in
that commit. The -r flag makes the command list individual files, rather than
collapsing them into root directory names only.
You can also include the below mention point although it is totally optional but
will help in impressing the interviewer.
The output will also include some extra information, which can be easily
suppressed by including two flags:
git diff-tree –no-commit-id –name-only -r {hash}
Here –no-commit-id will suppress the commit hashes from appearing in the
output, and –name-only will only print the file names, instead of their paths.
Q13. How do you setup a script to run every time a repository receives
new commits through push?
There are three ways to configure a script to run every time a repository
receives new commits through push, one needs to define either a pre-receive,
update, or a post-receive hook depending on when exactly the script needs to
be triggered.
Hooks are local to every Git repository and are not versioned. Scripts can
either be created within the hooks directory inside the “.git” directory, or they
can be created elsewhere and links to those scripts can be placed within the
directory.
Q14. How will you know in Git if a branch has already been merged into
master?
I will advise you to begin this answer by giving a small definition of Continuous
Integration (CI). It is a development practice that requires developers to
integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Each check-in is
then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early.
I suggest that you explain how you have implemented it in your previous job.
You can refer the below given example:
In the diagram shown above:
For this answer, you should focus on the need of Continuous Integration. My
suggestion would be to mention the below explanation in your answer:
Continuous Integration of Dev and Testing improves the quality of software,
and reduces the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of
testing after completing all development. It allows Dev team to easily detect
and locate problems early because developers need to integrate code into a
shared repository several times a day (more frequently). Each check-in is then
automatically tested.
Here you have to mention the requirements for Continuous Integration. You
could include the following points in your answer:
I will approach this task by copying the jobs directory from the old server to
the new one. There are multiple ways to do that; I have mentioned them
below:
You can:
Q5. Explain how can create a backup and copy files in Jenkins?
Answer to this question is really direct. To create a backup, all you need to do
is to periodically back up your JENKINS_HOME directory. This contains all of
your build jobs configurations, your slave node configurations, and your build
history. To create a back-up of your Jenkins setup, just copy this directory.
You can also copy a job directory to clone or replicate a job or rename the
directory.
My approach to this answer will be to first mention how to create Jenkins job.
Go to Jenkins top page, select “New Job”, then choose “Build a free-style
software project”.
Then you can tell the elements of this freestyle job:
Maven 2 project
Amazon EC2
HTML publisher
Copy artifact
Join
Green Balls
These Plugins, I feel are the most useful plugins. If you want to include any
other Plugin that is not mentioned above, you can add them as well. But,
make sure you first mention the above stated plugins and then add your own.
The way I secure Jenkins is mentioned below. If you have any other way of
doing it, please mention it in the comments section below:
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I have mentioned a generic flow below which you can refer to:
In DevOps, developers are required to commit all the changes made in the
source code to a shared repository. Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins
will pull the code from this shared repository every time a change is made in
the code and deploy it for Continuous Testing that is done by tools like
Selenium as shown in the below diagram.
In this way, any change in the code is continuously tested unlike the traditional
approach.
You can answer this question by saying, “Continuous Testing allows any
change made in the code to be tested immediately. This avoids the problems
created by having “big-bang” testing left to the end of the cycle such as
release delays and quality issues. In this way, Continuous Testing facilitates
more frequent and good quality releases.”
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Q7. Which Testing tool are you comfortable with and what are the
benefits of that tool?
Here mention the testing tool that you have worked with and accordingly
frame your answer. I have mentioned an example below:
I have worked on Selenium to ensure high quality and more frequent releases.
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Revise capability,
Improve performance,
Reliability or maintainability,
Extend life,
Reduce cost,
Reduce risk and
Liability, or correct defects.
According to me, you should first explain Asset. It has a financial value along
with a depreciation rate attached to it. IT assets are just a sub-set of it.
Anything and everything that has a cost and the organization uses it for its
asset value calculation and related benefits in tax calculation falls under Asset
Management, and such item is called an asset.
Configuration Item on the other hand may or may not have financial values
assigned to it. It will not have any depreciation linked to it. Thus, its life would
not be dependent on its financial value but will depend on the time till that item
becomes obsolete for the organization.
Now you can give an example that can showcase the similarity and
differences between both:
1) Similarity:
Server – It is both an asset as well as a CI.
2) Difference:
Building – It is an asset but not a CI.
Document – It is a CI but not an asset
Q5. Which among Puppet, Chef, SaltStack and Ansible is the best
Configuration Management (CM) tool? Why?
This depends on the organization’s need so mention few points on all those
tools:
Puppet is the oldest and most mature CM tool. Puppet is a Ruby-based
Configuration Management tool, but while it has some free features, much of
what makes Puppet great is only available in the paid version. Organizations
that don’t need a lot of extras will find Puppet useful, but those needing more
customization will probably need to upgrade to the paid version.
Chef is written in Ruby, so it can be customized by those who know the
language. It also includes free features, plus it can be upgraded from open
source to enterprise-level if necessary. On top of that, it’s a very flexible
product.
Ansible is a very secure option since it uses Secure Shell. It’s a simple tool to
use, but it does offer a number of other services in addition to configuration
management. It’s very easy to learn, so it’s perfect for those who don’t have a
dedicated IT staff but still need a configuration management tool.
SaltStack is python based open source CM tool made for larger businesses,
but its learning curve is fairly low.
Q8. Describe the most significant gain you made from automating a
process through Puppet.
For this answer, I will suggest you to explain you past experience with Puppet.
you can refer the below example:
I automated the configuration and deployment of Linux and Windows
machines using Puppet. In addition to shortening the processing time from
one week to 10 minutes, I used the roles and profiles pattern and documented
the purpose of each module in README to ensure that others could update
the module using Git. The modules I wrote are still being used, but they’ve
been improved by my teammates and members of the community
Q9. Which open source or community tools do you use to make Puppet
more powerful?
Over here, you need to mention the tools and how you have used those tools
to make Puppet more powerful. Below is one example for your reference:
Changes and requests are ticketed through Jira and we manage requests
through an internal process. Then, we use Git and Puppet’s Code Manager
app to manage Puppet code in accordance with best practices. Additionally,
we run all of our Puppet changes through our continuous integration pipeline
in Jenkins using the beaker testing framework.
For this answer, you can go with the below mentioned explanation:
A Puppet Module is a collection of Manifests and data (such as facts, files,
and templates), and they have a specific directory structure. Modules are
useful for organizing your Puppet code, because they allow you to split your
code into multiple Manifests. It is considered best practice to use Modules to
organize almost all of your Puppet Manifests.
Puppet programs are called Manifests which are composed of Puppet code
and their file names use the .pp extension.
You are expected to answer what exactly Facter does in Puppet so according
to me, you should say, “Facter gathers basic information (facts) about Puppet
Agent such as hardware details, network settings, OS type and version, IP
addresses, MAC addresses, SSH keys, and more. These facts are then made
available in Puppet Master’s Manifests as variables.”
Chef Server: The Chef Server is the central store of your infrastructure’s
configuration data. The Chef Server stores the data necessary to
configure your nodes and provides search, a powerful tool that allows
you to dynamically drive node configuration based on data.
Chef Node: A Node is any host that is configured using Chef-client.
Chef-client runs on your nodes, contacting the Chef Server for the
information necessary to configure the node. Since a Node is a machine
that runs the Chef-client software, nodes are sometimes referred to as
“clients”.
Chef Workstation: A Chef Workstation is the host you use to modify your
cookbooks and other configuration data.
Q14. What is a resource in Chef?
For this answer, I will suggest you to use the above mentioned flow: first
define Recipe. A Recipe is a collection of Resources that describes a
particular configuration or policy. A Recipe describes everything that is
required to configure part of a system.
After the definition, explain the functions of Recipes by including the following
points:
The answer to this is pretty direct. You can simply say, “a Recipe is a
collection of Resources, and primarily configures a software package or some
piece of infrastructure. A Cookbook groups together Recipes and other
information in a way that is more manageable than having just Recipes
alone.”
Q17. What happens when you don’t specify a Resource’s action in Chef?
WebLogic Server 8.1 allows you to select the load order for applications. See
the Application MBean Load Order attribute in Application. WebLogic Server
deploys server-level resources (first JDBC and then JMS) before deploying
applications. Applications are deployed in this order: connectors, then EJBs,
then Web Applications. If the application is an EAR, the individual components
are loaded in the order in which they are declared in the application.xml
deployment descriptor.
In the Administration Console, click the name of the domain in the left
pane, then select the Production Mode checkbox in the right pane.
At the command line, include the following argument when starting the
domain’s Administration Server:
-Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=true
Production mode is set for all WebLogic Server instances in a given
domain.
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continuous audit
continuous controls monitoring
continuous transaction inspection
You can answer this question by first mentioning that Nagios is one of the
monitoring tools. It is used for Continuous monitoring of systems, applications,
services, and business processes etc in a DevOps culture. In the event of a
failure, Nagios can alert technical staff of the problem, allowing them to begin
remediation processes before outages affect business processes, end-users,
or customers. With Nagios, you don’t have to explain why an unseen
infrastructure outage affect your organization’s bottom line.
Now once you have defined what is Nagios, you can mention the various
things that you can achieve using Nagios.
By using Nagios you can:
This completes the answer to this question. Further details like advantages
etc. can be added as per the direction where the discussion is headed.
I will advise you to follow the below explanation for this answer:
Nagios runs on a server, usually as a daemon or service. Nagios periodically
runs plugins residing on the same server, they contact hosts or servers on
your network or on the internet. One can view the status information using the
web interface. You can also receive email or SMS notifications if something
happens.
The Nagios daemon behaves like a scheduler that runs certain scripts at
certain moments. It stores the results of those scripts and will run other scripts
if these results change.
Now expect a few questions on Nagios components like Plugins, NRPE etc..
Begin this answer by defining Plugins. They are scripts (Perl scripts, Shell
scripts, etc.) that can run from a command line to check the status of a host or
service. Nagios uses the results from Plugins to determine the current status
of hosts and services on your network.
Once you have defined Plugins, explain why we need Plugins. Nagios will
execute a Plugin whenever there is a need to check the status of a host or
service. Plugin will perform the check and then simply returns the result to
Nagios. Nagios will process the results that it receives from the Plugin and
take the necessary actions.
For this answer, give a brief definition of Plugins. The NRPE addon is
designed to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on remote Linux/Unix
machines. The main reason for doing this is to allow Nagios to monitor “local”
resources (like CPU load, memory usage, etc.) on remote machines. Since
these public resources are not usually exposed to external machines, an
agent like NRPE must be installed on the remote Linux/Unix machines.
I will advise you to explain the NRPE architecture on the basis of diagram
shown below. The NRPE addon consists of two pieces:
According to me, the answer should start by explaining Passive checks. They
are initiated and performed by external applications/processes and the
Passive check results are submitted to Nagios for processing.
Then explain the need for passive checks. They are useful for monitoring
services that are Asynchronous in nature and cannot be monitored effectively
by polling their status on a regularly scheduled basis. They can also be used
for monitoring services that are Located behind a firewall and cannot be
checked actively from the monitoring host.
Make sure that you stick to the question during your explanation so I will
advise you to follow the below mentioned flow. Nagios check for external
commands under the following conditions:
Q8. What is the difference between Active and Passive check in Nagios?
For this answer, first point out the basic difference Active and Passive checks.
The major difference between Active and Passive checks is that Active
checks are initiated and performed by Nagios, while passive checks are
performed by external applications.
If your interviewer is looking unconvinced with the above explanation then you
can also mention some key features of both Active and Passive checks:
Passive checks are useful for monitoring services that are:
First mention what this main configuration file contains and its function. The
main configuration file contains a number of directives that affect how the
Nagios daemon operates. This config file is read by both the Nagios daemon
and the CGIs (It specifies the location of your main configuration file).
Now you can tell where it is present and how it is created. A sample main
configuration file is created in the base directory of the Nagios distribution
when you run the configure script. The default name of the main configuration
file is nagios.cfg. It is usually placed in the etc/ subdirectory of you Nagios
installation (i.e. /usr/local/nagios/etc/).
I will advise you to first explain Flapping first. Flapping occurs when a service
or host changes state too frequently, this causes lot of problem and recovery
notifications.
Once you have defined Flapping, explain how Nagios detects Flapping.
Whenever Nagios checks the status of a host or service, it will check to see if
it has started or stopped flapping. Nagios follows the below given procedure to
do that:
Storing the results of the last 21 checks of the host or service analyzing
the historical check results and determine where state
changes/transitions occur
Using the state transitions to determine a percent state change value (a
measure of change) for the host or service
Comparing the percent state change value against low and high
flapping thresholds
A host or service is determined to have started flapping when its percent state
change first exceeds a high flapping threshold. A host or service is determined
to have stopped flapping when its percent state goes below a low flapping
threshold.
Q12. What are the three main variables that affect recursion and
inheritance in Nagios?
Name
Use
Register
Answer to this question is pretty direct. I will answer this by saying, “One of
the features of Nagios is object configuration format in that you can create
object definitions that inherit properties from other object definitions and hence
the name. This simplifies and clarifies relationships between various
components.”
I will advise you to first give a small introduction on State Stalking. It is used
for logging purposes. When Stalking is enabled for a particular host or service,
Nagios will watch that host or service very carefully and log any changes it
sees in the output of check results.
Depending on the discussion between you and interviewer you can also add,
“It can be very helpful in later analysis of the log files. Under normal
circumstances, the result of a host or service check is only logged if the host
or service has changed state since it was last checked.”
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Q3. How exactly are containers (Docker in our case) different from
hypervisor virtualization (vSphere)? What are the benefits?
Given below are some differences. Make sure you include these differences in
your answer:
Q4. What is Docker image?
This is a very important question so just make sure you don’t deviate from the
topic. I advise you to follow the below mentioned format:
Docker containers include the application and all of its dependencies but
share the kernel with other containers, running as isolated processes in user
space on the host operating system. Docker containers are not tied to any
specific infrastructure: they run on any computer, on any infrastructure, and in
any cloud.
Now explain how to create a Docker container, Docker containers can be
created by either creating a Docker image and then running it or you can use
Docker images that are present on the Dockerhub.
Docker containers are basically runtime instances of Docker images.
Q6. What is Docker hub?
Dokku
Docker Compose
Docker Machine
Jenkins
Q10. Can I use json instead of yaml for my compose file in Docker?
You can use json instead of yaml for your compose file, to use json file with
compose, specify the filename to use for eg:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.json up
Q11. Tell us how you have used Docker in your past position?
Explain how you have used Docker to help rapid deployment. Explain how
you have scripted Docker and used Docker with other tools like Puppet, Chef
or Jenkins. If you have no past practical experience in Docker and have past
experience with other tools in similar space, be honest and explain the same.
In this case, it makes sense if you can compare other tools to Docker in terms
of functionality.
I will suggest you to give a direct answer to this. We can use Docker image to
create Docker container by using the below command:
docker run -t -i <image name> <command name>
This command will create and start container.
You should also add, If you want to check the list of all running container with
status on a host use the below command:
docker ps -a
In order to stop the Docker container you can use the below command:
docker stop <container ID>
Now to restart the Docker container you can use:
docker restart <container ID>
Large web deployments like Google and Twitter, and platform providers such
as Heroku and dotCloud all run on container technology, at a scale of
hundreds of thousands or even millions of containers running in parallel.
Q15. What platforms does Docker run on?
I will start this answer by saying Docker runs on only Linux and Cloud
platforms and then I will mention the below vendors of Linux:
Cloud:
Amazon EC2
Google Compute Engine
Microsoft Azure
Rackspace
You can answer this by saying, no I won’t loose my data when Dcoker
container exits. Any data that your application writes to disk gets preserved in
its container until you explicitly delete the container. The file system for the
container persists even after the container halts.