Docker interview Questions

1.What is Docker?
2.How will you remove an image from Docker?
3.How is a Docker container different from a hypervisor?
4.Can we write compose file in json file instead of yaml?
5.Can we run multiple apps on one server with Docker?
6.What are the common use cases of Docker?
7.What are the main features of Docker-compose?
8.What is the most popular use of Docker?
9.What is the difference between Docker image and Docker container?
10.What is the difference between Docker commands: up, run and start?
11.What is Docker Swarm?
12.What are the features of Docker Swarm?
13.What is a Docker Image?
14.What is a Docker Container?
15.What is Docker Machine?
16.Why do we use Docker Machine?
17.How will you create a Container in Docker?
18.Do you think Docker is Application-centric or Machine-centric?
19.Can we lose our data when a Docker Container exits?
20.Can we run more than one process in a Docker container?
21.What are the objects created by Docker Cloud in Amazon Web
Services (AWS) EC2?
22.How will you take backup of Docker container volumes in AWS S3?
23.What are the three main steps of Docker Compose?
24.What is Pluggable Storage Driver architecture in Docker based
containers?
25.What is Docker Hub?
26.What are the main features of Docker Hub?
27.What are the main security concerns with Docker based containers?
28.What are the security benefits of using Container based system?
29.How can we check the status of a Container in Docker?
30.What are the main benefits of using Docker?
31.How does Docker simplify Software Development process?
32.What is the basic architecture behind Docker?
33.What are the popular tasks that you can do with Docker Command line
tool?
34.What type of applications- Stateless or Stateful are more suitable for
Docker Container?
35.How can Docker run on different Linux distributions?
36.Why do we use Docker on top of a virtual machine?
37.How can Docker container share resources?
38.What is the difference between Add and Copy command in a
Dockerfile?
39.What is Docker Entrypoint?
40.What is ONBUILD command in Docker?
41.What is Build cache in Docker?
42.What are the most common instructions in Dockerfile?
43.What is the purpose of EXPOSE command in Dockerfile?
44.What are the different kinds of namespaces available in a Container?
45.How will you monitor Docker in production?
46.What are the Cloud platforms that support Docker?
47.How can we control the startup order of services in Docker compose?
48.Why Docker compose does not wait for a container to be ready before
moving on to start next service in dependency order?
49.How will you customize Docker compose file for different
environments?
50.What is the difference between Docker commands: up, run and start?
51.How will you take backup of Docker container volumes in AWS S3?

52.Docker Vs VM (Virtual Machine).

53.How to stop and restart the Docker container?

54..How far do Docker containers scale?

55.What platforms does Docker run on?

56.How do I run multiple copies of a Compose file on the same host?

57.What, in your opinion, is the most exciting potential use for Docker?

58.Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?

59.Why do my services take 10 seconds to recreate or stop?

60.How many containers can run per host?

61.Will cloud automation overtake containerization any sooner?

62.Is there a way to identify the status of a Docker container?

63.What are the differences between the ‘docker run’ and the ‘docker
create’?

64.What are the various states that a Docker container can be in at any
given point in time?

65..Can you remove a paused container from Docker?

66.Is there a possibility that a container can restart all by itself in Docker?
67.What is the preferred way of removing containers - ‘docker rm -f’ or
‘docker stop’ then followed by a ‘docker rm’?

68.How to know the container status?

69.what is the difference between kill and stop

70.which is the base image you will preter your docker file

71.how login a running containers

72.how to check live logs in docker

73.how to check no.of container running your machine.

74.how to check stop and runining containers

75.what is port forwarding

76.Which instruction must be given first in a Dockerfile?

77.What is the role of open source development in the popularity of

Docker?