diff --git a/scripts/src/artifact-registry.ts b/scripts/src/artifact-registry.ts
index 262288db..717eee20 100644
--- a/scripts/src/artifact-registry.ts
+++ b/scripts/src/artifact-registry.ts
@@ -2042,7 +2042,13 @@ function d601K3sArtifactDeployScript(options: ArtifactRegistryOptions, spec: Art
     "containerd_config_label() {",
     "  ref=\"$1\"",
     "  key=\"$2\"",
-    "  target_digest=$(root_exec ctr --address /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock -n k8s.io images info \"$ref\" | python3 -c 'import json,sys; print(((json.load(sys.stdin).get(\"Target\") or {}).get(\"Digest\")) or \"\")')",
+    "  actual_ref=\"$ref\"",
+    "  if ! root_exec ctr --address /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock -n k8s.io images inspect \"$actual_ref\" >/dev/null 2>&1; then",
+    "    suffix=\"${ref#*/}\"",
+    "    actual_ref=$(root_exec ctr --address /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock -n k8s.io images ls -q | grep -F \"/$suffix\" | head -1 || true)",
+    "  fi",
+    "  test -n \"$actual_ref\"",
+    "  target_digest=$(root_exec ctr --address /run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock -n k8s.io images inspect \"$actual_ref\" | python3 -c 'import re,sys; m=re.search(r\"@(sha256:[0-9a-f]+)\", sys.stdin.read()); print(m.group(1) if m else \"\")')",
     "  test -n \"$target_digest\"",
     "  python3 - \"$target_digest\" \"$key\" <<'PY'",
     "import json",