The terminal confirmed the scale. But the latency didn't budge.
kubectl scale deployment payment-svc --replicas=5 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 terminal confirmed the scale
A context in the config file looks like this: The * (asterisk) was pointing to the wrong world
To fully review this command, one must understand what it manipulates. kubectl config get-contexts reads the contexts stanza in your kubeconfig file (usually located at ~/.kube/config ).
A context is a "shortcut" that bundles three critical pieces of information together: How to switch kubectl clusters between gcloud and minikube
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