Private Registry Returns Zero-Byte Blobs to New Kubernetes Worker Nodes
An engineer expanding a Kubernetes/RKE2 cluster finds that new worker nodes fail to pull container images from an existing private registry, receiving zero bytes for image blobs and causing containerd unexpected-EOF errors, despite the registry being reachable and authenticated successfully. The issue appears tied to previously manually-deleted registry blobs and highlights the difficulty of diagnosing subtle private registry storage inconsistencies when scaling a cluster.
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