Show HN: Opterview – An Interview Tool for DevOps

opterview.com

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Hi Everyone,

I’m the creator of Opterview. It’s a CoderPad like experience for interviewing DevOps Engineers with challenges for screening your candidates. You get a shared terminal in the browser connected to a dedicated host configured for the challenge you choose. Some example challenges include:

* Debugging a web application that’s experiencing an outage

* Diagnosing issues on a misconfigured Docker host

* Writing configuration management code to deploy a web server

* Using Terraform to provision resources in a dedicated AWS account

Opterview has been in a private beta since this spring, and last week I finally opened it up to everyone. I’m a solo founder, and Opterview is at this point fully bootstrapped. If you have any questions I’m happy to answer them!

Are the sessions recorded so we can play them back later?

Yup! After each interview a recording of the terminal session is available for you to watch. You can also download a copy of the contents of the user's home directory.

What's it running under the hood?

When you start an interview an EC2 instance is provisioned. This will include all the (mis)configured software needed for the challenge you select, and you'll get access to that instance via the browser based terminal.

One of the interesting parts about building the outage related challenges is ensuring not just that they break, but that they break in a consistent and reliable manner. Also, that they don't interfere with your candidate's ability to work on the host.

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