Apple Silicon and the images that were never built for it

Worker pods stuck in ImagePullBackOff on an arm64 host, pulling images published only for linux/amd64.

This is less an investigation than a quick tip, because the root cause is immediate once you look at the manifest list: the tag exists, it just has no variant for your architecture. What is worth writing down is the shape of the response. You do not control the upstream project's release pipeline, so the choice is between a real fix you cannot make and a mitigation you can — pin the platform explicitly and accept emulation, or build the image yourself.

Lesson. When the correct fix lives in someone else's repository, name the mitigation as a mitigation. A workaround you have labelled honestly is maintainable; one you have quietly filed as "done" is a trap for whoever hits it next.