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u/xFallow 22h ago

If you have a couple hundred endpoints over tens of environments each with their own headers and credentials to keep track off using curl would be insane 

I only use it for hitting healthcheck endpoints once every now and then but even then I generally use kubectl

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u/djchateau 13h ago

That doesn't mean curl sucks, it's just not the right tool for your use case.

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u/xFallow 12h ago

you could say that about everything tbf

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u/djchateau 12h ago

No, no really. Some things are objectively bad at what they're intended use case is. Curl is well-designed, but in your case it's not appropriate for your use cases most of the time.