Pod creation in ContainerCreating state always

Question

I am trying to create a pod using kubernetes with the following simple command kubectl run example --image=nginx

It runs and assigns the pod to the minion correctly but the status is always in ContainerCreating status due to the following error. I have not hosted GCR or GCloud on my machine. So not sure why its picking from there only.

1h 29m 14s {kubelet centos-minion1} Warning FailedSync Error syncing pod, skipping: 
failed to "StartContainer" for "POD" with ErrImagePull: "image pull failed
for gcr.io/google_containers/pause:2.0, this may be because there are no
credentials on this request.  details: (unable to ping registry endpoint
https://gcr.io/v0/\nv2 ping attempt failed with error: Get https://gcr.io/v2/:
http: error connecting to proxy http://87.254.212.120:8080: dial tcp
87.254.212.120:8080: i/o timeout\n v1 ping attempt failed with error:
Get https://gcr.io/v1/_ping: http: error connecting to proxy
http://87.254.212.120:8080: dial tcp 87.254.212.120:8080: i/o timeout)

Answer 1

Kubernetes is trying to create a pause container for your pod; this container is used to create the pod's network namespace. See this question and its answers for more general information on the pause container.

To your specific error: Kubernetes tries to pull the pause container's image (which would be gcr.io/google_containers/pause:2.0 , according to your error message) from the Google Container Registry (gcr.io). Apparently, your Docker engine tries to connect to GCR using a HTTP proxy located at 87.254.212.120:8080 , to which it apparently cannot connect ( i/o timeout ).

To correct this error, either make sure that you HTTP proxy server is online and does not block HTTP requests to GCR, or (if you do have public Internet access) disable the proxy connection for your Docker engine (this would typically be done using the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables, which would have been set in /etc/sysconfig/docker or /etc/default/docker , depending on your Linux distribution).