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A deployment in one region runs correctly and the same deployment in another fails with a missing configuration key. Both reference image `service:1.8.2`. The registry reports one digest for that tag. How do you diagnose this, and what is the fix?

A platform distributes large artefacts to many consumers. What does artefact management need beyond storage?

A team's registry holds every build artefact ever produced: 400,000 container images, 180 TB, growing 6 TB a month, and the storage bill is now material. Which retention policy should they adopt?