title	Scripting and Automation
category	Scripting and Automation
tags	devops scripting-and-automation index

Scripting and Automation

The scripting layer under every pipeline - defensive Bash for orchestration, and Python for cloud APIs, structured data, and the tooling Bash cannot carry.

6 questions · 🟢 Beginner: 1 · 🟡 Intermediate: 4 · 🔴 Advanced: 1

Questions

#	Question	Difficulty
266	How do you write a production-grade Bash script?	🟡 Intermediate
267	What do you use Python for as a DevOps engineer?	🟡 Intermediate
301	When do you use Bash and when do you use Python?	🟢 Beginner
302	How do you turn a pile of ad hoc scripts into maintainable automation?	🔴 Advanced
502	What Bash scripting exercises come up in DevOps interviews?	🟡 Intermediate
503	What Python exercises come up in DevOps interviews?	🟡 Intermediate

What interviewers probe here

• What set -euo pipefail does, line by line.
• Whether your script is safe to run twice.
• When you stop writing Bash and reach for Python.

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