kubectl Hacks That Changed How I Work With Kubernetes

Beyond the basics: patching, waiting, explaining, and squeezing the most out of the one tool that never leaves your terminal. Most kubectl guides stop at get pods and apply -f . That's fine for getting started, but after years of running Kubernetes in production, the commands that make the real difference are the ones nobody writes about. The obscure flags. The output tricks. The commands that turn a 20-minute debugging slog into a 90-second fix. This article is about the depth of kubectl: comma