Pulling image from private container registry (Harbor) in Kubernetes - kubernetes

Question

I am using Harbor (https://goharbor.io/) for private container registry. I run the Harbor using docker compose, and it is working fine. I can push/ pull images to this private registry using a VM. I already used 'docker login' command to login into this Harbor repository.
For Kubernetes, I am using k3s.
Now, I want to create a pod in Kubernetes using the image in this Harbor private repository. I referred to Harbor & Kubernetes documentations (https://goharbor.io/docs/1.10/working-with-projects/working-with-images/pulling-pushing-images/) & (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/) to pull the image.
As mentioned in Harbor documentation:
Kubernetes users can easily deploy pods with images stored in Harbor.
The settings are similar to those of any other private registry. There
are two issues to be aware of:
When your Harbor instance is hosting HTTP and the certificate is
self-signed, you must modify daemon.json on each work node of your
cluster. For information, see
https://docs.docker.com/registry/insecure/#deploy-a-plain-http-registry.
If your pod references an image under a private project, you must
create a secret with the credentials of a user who has permission to
pull images from the project. For information, see
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/.
I created the daemon.json file in /etc/docker:
{
"insecure-registries" : "my-harbor-server:443"
}
As mentioned in Kubernetes documentation, I created the Secret using this command:
kubectl create secret generic regcred \
--from-file=.dockerconfigjson=<path/to/.docker/config.json> \
--type=kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
Then I used a file called pod.yml to create pod (using kubectl apply -f pod.yml):
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: myapp
spec:
containers:
- name: myapp
image: my-harbor-server/my-project/mayapp:v1.0
imagePullSecrets:
- name: regcred
However, when I checked the pod status, it is showing 'ImagePullBackOff'. The pod logs shows:
Error from server (BadRequest): container "myapp" in pod "myapp" is waiting to start: trying and failing to pull image
Is there any other step that I have to do to pull this image from Harbor private repository into Kubernetes? What is the reason that I cannot pull this image from Harbor private repository into Kubernetes?

Answer 1

The /etc/docker/daemon.json file configures the docker engine. If your CRI is not the docker shim, them this file will not apply to Kubernetes. For k3s, that is configured using /etc/rancher/k3s/registries.yaml. See https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/private-registry/ for details on configuring this file. It needs to be performed on each host.