kubectl config get-contexts The output made his stomach drop:
But Alex never forgot that feeling. The cold realization that you’re looking at a mirror image of the problem, not the problem itself. kubectl switch contexts
He’d been debugging the wrong cluster for the last ten minutes. kubectl config get-contexts The output made his stomach
“Okay,” he muttered, pulling up his kubectl commands. He needed to check logs for the payment-api pod. He typed quickly: ” he muttered
kubectl logs payment-api-7d8f9b-xt2mz -n payment-system Nothing. Just happy-path requests. No errors, no timeouts.
kubectl port-forward service/payment-api 8080:80 -n payment-system Fast. Responsive. 20ms responses. Something was wrong—not with the code, but with his assumptions .