

The registry is blocking you, or there’s some other registry issue This is also true if you’re pulling from a publicly-accessible, but password-protected registry, like the Red Hat registry, or even private images on Google Container Registry, GitHub Container Registry, etc. So if you need to pull an image from a private image registry, you need to make sure that you provide Kubernetes with the credentials it will need to pull the image. This is because companies generally don’t want to publish their private, internal apps to Docker Hub. Most enterprises that use Kubernetes tend to use it with a private container image registry. You’re using a private registry, but you’ve not supplied credentials If it doesn’t, find out which replacement tag is good for you to use instead. If you’re following an old tutorial or book which references a specific image tag, check that the tag still exists. If you’re 100% sure that the name is correct, maybe the tag has been retired? $ kubectl run mytest -image=n0nexistentimage/n0nexist:blaīut what if you think the image should exist? You can see this in action quite easily by creating a pod using kubectl run, and giving it an image name that’s complete nonsense: If you’re trying to create a Pod which references an image name or tag that doesn’t exist, you’ll get ImagePullBackOff.

This is perhaps the cause of this error that I experience most often! I also like to call it “the butterfingers cause”, because it’s usually the result of me making a typo. You’re referencing an image or tag that doesn’t exist


Now let’s look at each of the causes in turn.
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You’ve exceeded a rate or download limit on the registry Advertisements The image registry requires authentication You’ve made a typo in the image name or tag So let’s look at some of the possible causes for the error. Now let’s check out the root causes of this ImagePullBackOff error. So the ImagePullBackOff error is a sign that something is blocking Kubernetes from being able to pull the image you want onto a specific node. If something prevents the container runtime from pulling an image onto the node that Kubernetes has scheduled your Pod onto, the kubelet will report back ErrImagePull, then ImagePullBackOff, and keep trying. So every node in the cluster needs to be able to get that image. Kubernetes relies on the fact that images described in a Pod manifest are available across every machine in the cluster.
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