Later, at the post-mortem meeting, her manager asked, “What was the root cause?”
kubectl get-contexts Her heart stopped.
Maya was a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a chaotic fintech startup. It was 2:00 PM on a Tuesday—peak incident time.
She re-ran the scale command, watched the new pods spin up, and saw the latency graph finally flatten.
Maya sighed. “The root cause was me. I didn’t run kubectl get-contexts before I started. I assumed where I was.”
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.
Later, at the post-mortem meeting, her manager asked, “What was the root cause?”
kubectl get-contexts Her heart stopped.
Maya was a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a chaotic fintech startup. It was 2:00 PM on a Tuesday—peak incident time.
She re-ran the scale command, watched the new pods spin up, and saw the latency graph finally flatten.
Maya sighed. “The root cause was me. I didn’t run kubectl get-contexts before I started. I assumed where I was.”
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.