I disagree. There are always bugs that will happen only on the prod machines. Sure, they are rare, but they exist. > just wanted to look at which env vars wer

I disagree. There are always bugs that will happen only on the prod machines. Sure, they are rare, but they exist. > just wanted to look at which env vars were set. Ops team told him how to do his job - log the configuration Well, that's not risk free neither. That needs a code change and you risk exposing secrets, or logging more than you should. (Though I agree with the general idea of you shouldn't be SSHing if you can do it another way)