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kubectl config get-contexts The output made his stomach drop:

He pushed it to the team’s dotfiles repo with a single commit message: From that day on, every engineer on the team had a colorful, impossible-to-ignore shell prompt. And not once—not a single time—did anyone ever again spend ten minutes troubleshooting the wrong cluster. kubectl switch contexts

He looked at his terminal prompt. His shell was configured to show the current Kubernetes context in green. But today, it was… red . kubectl config get-contexts The output made his stomach

kubectl logs payment-api-7d8f9b-xt2mz -n payment-system Nothing. Just happy-path requests. No errors, no timeouts. kubectl switch contexts

He typed:

CURRENT NAME CLUSTER NAMESPACE prod-us-east prod-cluster payment-system * staging-us-west staging-cluster payment-system dev-local dev-cluster default He was looking at . The alert was from production .