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Prashant Lakhera
Prashant Lakhera

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πŸ“Œ DevOps Interview Buddy using n8n, Ollama, and Gemma: Completely Free (Bonus: OpenRouter)πŸ“Œ

βœ… I built a DevOps Interview Buddy AI agent using n8n + Ollama, and the best part is, it’s completely free.

βœ… The idea was simple: Can we simulate a real DevOps interview, not a chatbot that throws textbook answers?

βœ… So I gave the model a very specific role: A senior DevOps interviewer who evaluates how you think, how you debug, and how you reason about trade-offs, just like a real production interview.

What are we using?

πŸ”Ή n8n – a no-code/low-code tool to automate workflows by visually connecting steps

πŸ”Ή Ollama – lets you run AI models locally, no paid AI APIs required

πŸ”Ή Docker Desktop – to run everything cleanly on your machine

πŸ”Ή Gemma 3 – the lightweight open-source language model used for the interview agent

⚠️ This is a basic use case on purpose. The goal is to understand how n8n connects tools and reasoning together.

πŸŽ₯ YouTube link: https://youtu.be/DMQlWWhcZOQ

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