kubectl get-contexts Her heart stopped.
kubectl scale deployment payment-svc --replicas=5 The terminal confirmed the scale. But the latency didn't budge. kubectl get-contexts
Maya’s terminal was a mess of green text. She was trying to debug why payment latency had spiked to four seconds in . Her fingers flew across the keyboard. kubectl get-contexts Her heart stopped
From that day forward, she aliased a new command in her .bashrc : kubectl get-contexts
For the last ten minutes, she had been tailing logs and scaling replicas on a silent, empty staging environment while the real production cluster continued to fail. The * (asterisk) was pointing to the wrong world.
The Context Switch