The Network You Meant to Run
· 5 min read
Most production network problems are not failures of a single source of truth. They are failures of comparison.
Kubernetes can tell us what was requested. A process and its metrics can tell us what it is doing. Both answers matter, and neither makes the other redundant. A Service definition is not proof that a socket is bound; an open socket is not proof that it belongs in the deployment.
The new CP Network View puts those two statements next to each other. Its most useful output is not a prettier topology diagram. It is the visible difference between the network we intended to run and the one that is running.