ImagePulloff error while deploying on minikube

Question

Hey there so I was trying to deploy my first and simple webapp with no database on minikube but this Imagepulloff error keeps coming in the pod. Yes I have checked the name of Image,tag several times; Here are the logs and yml files.

Namespace:        default
Priority:         0
Service Account:  default
Labels:           app=nodeapp1
                pod-template-hash=589c6bd468        
Annotations:      <none>
Status:           Pending
Controlled By:  ReplicaSet/nodeapp1-deployment-589c6bd468
Containers:
nodeserver:
  Container ID:
  Image:          ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest
  Image ID:
  Port:           3000/TCP
  Host Port:      0/TCP
  State:          Waiting
    Reason:       ErrImagePull
  Ready:          False
  Restart Count:  0
  Environment:    <none>
  Mounts:
    /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from kube-api-access-k6mkb (ro)
Conditions:
Type              Status
Initialized       True
Ready             False
ContainersReady   False
PodScheduled      True
Volumes:
kube-api-access-k6mkb:
  Type:                    Projected (a volume that contains injected data from multiple sources)
  TokenExpirationSeconds:  3607
  ConfigMapOptional:       <nil>
  DownwardAPI:             true
Node-Selectors:              <none>
Tolerations:                 node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
Events:
Type     Reason     Age   From               Message
----     ------     ----  ----               -------
Normal   Scheduled  2m3s  default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/nodeapp1-deployment-589c6bd468-5lg2n to minikube
Normal   Pulling    2m2s  kubelet            Pulling image "ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest"
Warning  Failed     3s    kubelet            Failed to pull image "ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = context deadline exceeded
Warning  Failed     3s    kubelet            Error: ErrImagePull
Normal   BackOff    2s    kubelet            Back-off pulling image "ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest"
Warning  Failed     2s    kubelet            Error: ImagePullBackOff

deployment.yml file

apiVersion: apps/v1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

  name: nodeapp1-deployment

  labels:

    app: nodeapp1

spec:

  replicas: 1

  selector:

    matchLabels:

      app: nodeapp1

  template:

    metadata:

      labels:

        app: nodeapp1

    spec:

      containers:

      - name: nodeserver

        image: ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest

        ports:

        - containerPort: 3000

service.yml fie

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nodeapp1-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: nodeapp1
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 3000
      targetPort: 3000
      nodePort: 31011

Please Help If anybody knows anything about this.

Answer 1

It seems to be an issue with the ability to reach container registry or registry in use for your images. Can you try to pull the image manually from the node?

Answer 2

I think your internet connection is slow. The timeout to pull an image is 120 seconds, so kubectl could not pull the image in under 120 seconds.

First, pull the image via Docker

docker image pull ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest

Then load the downloaded image to minikube

minikube image load ayushftw/nodeapp1:latest

And then everything will work because now kubectl will use the image that is stored locally.