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3 questions in Container Image Strategy.

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A critical CVE in a widely-used C library is announced at 09:00. You have 200 services in containers, each built by its own team's pipeline. Which approach patches the fleet fastest?

A platform must define a container image strategy for many teams. What decisions matter, and what is the security constraint?

At 11:40 a node group scales from 40 to 120 nodes during a traffic spike. The new pods sit in ImagePullBackOff - the public registry is returning 429 for the unauthenticated pulls of base images that three of your images reference directly. Which change removes this failure mode?