From Bash Script to Operational Triage: What Eight Months of Kubernetes Debugging Taught Me

In November 2025, I published a Bash script that analyzed Kubernetes clusters in about 60 seconds. It generated HTML reports, surfaced crash loops, orphaned resources, and other operational issues that were easy to overlook. The most interesting part wasn't the script — it was what happened after people started running it. Many told me they found problems they hadn't known existed.

Looking back, the bash script wasn't really solving debugging. It was solving prioritization. I just didn't have the vocabulary for it yet.