“Gotcha.”
Twenty minutes later, Alex had rolled back the deployment, adjusted the Redis maxclients setting, and re-deployed the fix. Latency returned to normal. The alert cleared.
kubectl get pods -n payment-system Pods were crashing. CrashLoopBackOff. Restart counts through the roof.
alias kctx='kubectl config get-contexts -o name | fzf | xargs kubectl config use-context' Finally, he wrote a quick script for the team’s shared tooling: kubectl-warning.sh . It would flash a bright red warning if the context was anything other than prod-us-east and the --namespace flag was missing or set to default .
He switched contexts immediately:
