2026-08-31
Daily Tech Challenge
You are about to ship a change and want to see exactly what it would do to the live cluster first. You run the command below against a cluster that also has a mutating webhook injecting a sidecar. What does kubectl diff actually do, and what does it exit with?
$ kubectl diff -f deploy.yaml diff -u -N /tmp/LIVE-1/apps.v1.Deployment.prod.web /tmp/MERGED-2/apps.v1.Deployment.prod.web --- /tmp/LIVE-1/... +++ /tmp/MERGED-2/... @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ - image: web:1.4 + image: web:1.5 $ echo $?
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