Kubectl Get-contexts 100%

She swore under her breath. “How did I forget to switch contexts?”

Maya was a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a chaotic fintech startup. It was 2:00 PM on a Tuesday—peak incident time. kubectl get-contexts

kubectl get-contexts Her heart stopped.

kubectl logs -f payment-svc-7d8f9b --tail=100 Logs scrolled by. No errors. Just slow database queries. Frustrated, she patched the deployment to increase the number of replicas. She swore under her breath

Later, at the post-mortem meeting, her manager asked, “What was the root cause?” at the post-mortem meeting

She re-ran the scale command, watched the new pods spin up, and saw the latency graph finally flatten.

kubectl scale deployment payment-svc --replicas=5 The terminal confirmed the scale. But the latency didn't budge.