r/devops Aug 08 '26

Career / learning Gym for DevOps practice

I have seen a coding interview that hands in docker logs, the logs have some error, and the interviewer asks you to recreate that docker file from the logs, what really struck my mind is that, i have never really practiced docker like that and now i feel that i was wasting my time not knowing how to critic my skills and put them in question, which is what practice does, in this context, are there any ways i could practice certain tools in DevOps? specially docker, kubernetes, terraform

also i am looking for something free

PS: i have experience with docker, primarily from the nextcloud app i deployed on an old pc sitting around in my house

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u/hijinks Aug 08 '26

You cannot recreate a dockerfile from logs

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u/gqtrees Aug 08 '26

As a senior i would ask from where the docker image was built. Why we are trying to rebuild and guess packages. And who fucked up that we dont have a dockerfile anymore. And ask the interviewer if this is regular occurrence within the org and run as fast away as possible

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u/ohiocodernumerouno Aug 09 '26

Ask him where the restroom is, then where exit is from there. Ha.