7 engineers on Hacker News describe using kubectl first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Previously we had to run a ton of kubectl commands to clean up after testing runs or put stuff in a specific namespace”
regret · production · dkoston · 2016-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ran it across ~500 pods in production.”
neutral · production · wozzio · 2025-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use "kubectl copy" currently when we want to inspect it, and we haven't actually had to write back to a production file yet.”
neutral · production · pgwhalen · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“run 'kubectl -n dev-namespace delete deployment service-deployment' but our current context is actually pointing to prod”
neutral · production · iechoz6H · 2021-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in our case, `kubectl exec`), the infrastructure team gets an alert”
neutral · production · bubblesorting · 2020-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“abbr -a k kubectl abbr -a n 'npm run' abbr -a y yarn abbr -a m make”
neutral · personal · ludwigvan · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“outputs a yaml manifest ready to kubectl apply.”
neutral · production · shaftoe · 2018-01-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?