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Cluster Autoscaler not adding nodes despite Pending Pods
Check CA logs for 'unschedulable' reasons. CA only adds nodes if the Pods are unschedulable due to resource constraints. Pods blocked by taints/affinity that no node pool could satisfy won't trigger scale-out.
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