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Kubernetes: Pre-pull images into node (moved to: https://github.com/itaysk/kube-imagepuller )
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apiVersion: apps/v1beta2
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: prepull
annotations:
source: "https://gist.github.com/itaysk/7bc3e56d69c4d72a549286d98fd557dd"
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
name: prepull
template:
metadata:
labels:
name: prepull
spec:
initContainers:
- name: prepull
image: docker
command: ["docker", "pull", "hello-world"]
volumeMounts:
- name: docker
mountPath: /var/run
volumes:
- name: docker
hostPath:
path: /var/run
containers:
- name: pause
image: gcr.io/google_containers/pause
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itaysk commented Jul 28, 2019

@adamnarkunskii : That's a good question, check out the updated version at https://github.com/itaysk/kube-imagepuller

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itaysk commented Jul 28, 2019

@xoen : Daemonset transitioned between apps, extentions, beta and stable along the different version of Kubernetes. Best to check the correct version for you by checking the online docs for your version.

Also, I've created a Helm chart for this here: https://github.com/itaysk/kube-imagepuller which detects the correct version

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itaysk commented Jul 28, 2019

@pengsun : not sure that's the best solution to use a ReplicaSet here, I prefer DaemonSet. Second, I think using podspec.imagepullsecret won't work here because the docker init container is not using this secret. I've posted an update to address this here https://github.com/itaysk/kube-imagepuller

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I just tried this on GCP but I am getting:

Error response from daemon: Head https://us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/v2/PROJECT_ID/...0.0.1: denied: Permission "artifactregistry.repositories.downloadArtifacts" denied on resource "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/us-central1/repositories/REPOSITORY" (or it may not exist)

The image does exist definitely, it's running on other nodes, so it appears that the DaemonSet simply does not have the permission to run docker pull. Any idea who I can make this work?

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stefan-falk commented Mar 24, 2022

@itaysk also I was wondering if we could do something like this:

initContainers:
- name: prepull
  image:  "<image-url>"
  env:
    SHUTDOWN: "True"  # Signal your application to shutdown immediately

Basically, use the image that you would like to pull directly but set an environment variable to make sure your application shuts-down (or does never actually start). This way the image should get pulled too I guess?

Update: Okay, this appears to work but I'd prefer the other way. Using env is just a bit ugly.

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