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Private registry pulls started failing ImagePullBackOff overnight. Walk me through the credential chain.

Pull auth resolves on the node before any container exists. Candidates who can order the credential chain and read 401 versus 403 versus 429 in events diagnose this in minutes; the rest rotate secrets blind.

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Pull auth resolves on the node before any container exists. Candidates who can order the credential chain and read 401 versus 403 versus 429 in events diagnose this in minutes; the rest rotate secrets blind.

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