Custom Docker Registry

Despite my efforts to update the CRD for kafkas.platform.confluent.io to utilize images from my Custom Docker Registry, and ensuring that the Kubernetes StatefulSet for Kafka was also updated accordingly to fetch the image from the custom Docker registry, I am encountering a persistent issue where the pods continue to use the outdated image. Strikingly, this anomaly appears to be confined solely to the Kafka StatefulSet. I kindly request guidance on resolving this perplexing matter.

Confluentfor Kubernetes (CFK) -
Operator 0.921.2
cp-server:7.6.0
confluent-init-container:2.8.0

My Kubernetes cluster is RKE2 version v1.24.9+rke2r1

did you try to change or update image pull policy?

spec:
  image:
    pullPolicy: Always

see
https://docs.confluent.io/operator/current/co-api.html#tag/Kafka
for reference