Accessing private Docker Hub repository from Kubernetes on Vagrant

Question

I am using kubernetes 1.2.0. I am trying to pull image from my docker hub repo into my local kubernetes on vagrant:

Container "hellonode" in pod "hellonode-n1hox" is waiting to start: image can't be pulled

Failed to pull image "username/hellonode": Error: image username/hellonode:latest not found

I am using kubernetes locally on my vagrant machine and created a secret named "dockerhub". i supply this secret as the image pull secret.

Answer 1

In order to pull private dockerhub hosted images using kubernetes yaml use:

DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER=docker.io
DOCKER_USER=Type your dockerhub username, same as when you `docker login`
DOCKER_EMAIL=Type your dockerhub email, same as when you `docker login`
DOCKER_PASSWORD=Type your dockerhub pw, same as when you `docker login`

kubectl create secret docker-registry myregistrykey \
  --docker-server=$DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER \
  --docker-username=$DOCKER_USER \
  --docker-password=$DOCKER_PASSWORD \
  --docker-email=$DOCKER_EMAIL

This is what your yaml file should look like:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: whatever
spec:
  containers:
    - name: whatever
      image: DOCKER_USER/PRIVATE_REPO_NAME:latest
      imagePullPolicy: Always
      command: [ "echo", "SUCCESS" ]
  imagePullSecrets:
    - name: myregistrykey

Then execute:

kubectl create -f example.yaml