Question

A developer reports that requests to a ClusterIP Service named 'orders' intermittently fail. You confirm the Service exists and its selector is 'app=orders'. To quickly determine whether the Service currently has any healthy Pod backends routing behind it, which command gives you the most direct answer?

Accepted Answer

kubectl get endpoints orders — to see which Pod IPs are registered as backends

Answer

kubectl get service orders -o wide — to view the Service's cluster IP and port

Answer

kubectl get namespaces — to confirm the Service is in the default namespace

Answer

kubectl config view — to check the current kubeconfig context