Pulling private image from docker hub using minikube - kubernetes

Question

I'm using minikube on macOS 10.12 and trying to use a private image hosted at docker hub. I know that minikube launches a VM that as far as I know will be the unique node of my local kubernetes cluster and that will host all my pods.
I read that I could use the VM's docker runtime by running eval $(minikube docker-env). So I used those variables to change from my local docker runtime to the other. Running docker images I could see that the change was done effectively.
My next step was to log in at docker hub using docker login and then pulling my image manually, which ended without error. After that I thought that the image will by ready to by be used by any pod in the cluster but I'm always getting ImagePullBackOff. I also tried to ssh into the VM via minikube ssh and the result is the same, the image is there to be used but for some reason I don't know it's refusing to use it.
In case it helps, this is my deployment description file:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: web-deployment
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: godraude/nginx
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 80
- containerPort: 443
And this is the output of kubectl describe pod <podname>:
Events:
FirstSeen LastSeen Count From SubobjectPath Type Reason Message
--------- -------- ----- ---- ------------- -------- ------ -------
1m 1m 1 {default-scheduler } Normal Scheduled Successfully assigned web-deployment-2451628605-vtbl8 to minikube
1m 23s 4 {kubelet minikube} spec.containers{nginx} Normal Pulling pulling image "godraude/nginx"
1m 20s 4 {kubelet minikube} spec.containers{nginx} Warning Failed Failed to pull image "godraude/nginx": Error: image godraude/nginx not found
1m 20s 4 {kubelet minikube} Warning FailedSync Error syncing pod, skipping: failed to "StartContainer" for "nginx" with ErrImagePull: "Error: image godraude/nginx not found"
1m 4s 5 {kubelet minikube} spec.containers{nginx} Normal BackOff Back-off pulling image "godraude/nginx"
1m 4s 5 {kubelet minikube} Warning FailedSync Error syncing pod, skipping: failed to "StartContainer" for "nginx" with ImagePullBackOff: "Back-off pulling image \"godraude/nginx\""

Answer 1

i think what u need is to create a secrete which will tell kube from where it can pull your private image and its credentials
kubectl create secret docker-registry my-secret --docker-server=DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER --docker-username=DOCKER_USER --docker-password=DOCKER_PASSWORD --docker-email=DOCKER_EMAIL
below command to list your secretes
kubectl get secret
NAME TYPE DATA AGE
my-secret kubernetes.io/dockercfg 1 100d
now in deployment defination u need to define whcih secret to use
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: web-deployment
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: godraude/nginx
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 80
- containerPort: 443
imagePullSecrets:
- name: my-secret

Answer 2

The problem was the image pull policy. It was set to Always so docker was trying to pull the imagen even if it was present. Setting imagePullPolicy: Never solved the issue.