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I did confirm that removing rancher-desktops kubectl from my path and installing kubectl manually resolves the slowness issue

did you set your context in kubectl using use-context?

yea i did

its a binary so not sure on the "slow"

i saw a github issue mentioning the rancher-desktop wraps kubectl with some utility that does some apiserver + kubectl compatibility checking or something

so the stub for RD just calls into the VM and runs that one i believe. so maybe that is the delay you are seeing? you could always use the native kubectl calling into the cluster.

Yeah, our

kubectl.exe

is actually kuberlr which pings the API server to figure out the version and downloads a close-enough version of

kubectl

internally. Sounds like that's having issues, but that uses the same API as the real CLI, so that isn't expected…