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Ops Archaeology: The Deploy That Didn't Deploy

File	Purpose
briefing.md	Scenario briefing with artifacts
hints.md	Progressive hints (timed)
answer_key.md	Full solution and skills tested

Ops Archaeology exercise — see ops-archaeology index for context.

Pages that link here

• Answer Key: The Deploy That Didn't Deploy
• Mental Models (Core Concepts)
• Ops Archaeology: Reverse-Engineering Production Systems
• Pattern: Stale Image Tag
• Pattern: latest Tag in Production
• Runbook: ImagePullBackOff
• Symptoms

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Prerequisites

• Kubernetes Ops (Production) (Topic Pack, L2)

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