Hello Lorie Goldfinger,
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Review below documents link for the causes that be reason for cluster/ node pool failure.
If you are not able to resolve the issue still, please provide more details about the issue like error messages and logs to deep dive into the issue to find the root cause and provide some accurate steps to overcome the issue.
hope this helps you.
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