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Debug CrashLoopBackOff in Pipeline Pod

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Problem

Scenario

You're operating a pipeline platform and one of the workload pods keeps restarting instead of staying healthy. The node hosting it also has intermittent network connectivity, so the failure may be inside the container, in the node, or in an upstream dependency.

Question

A pod is stuck in a CrashLoopBackOff state on a node with intermittent network connectivity. Walk me through your debugging steps.