Kubernetes: Pre-pull images into node (moved to: https://github.com/itaysk/kube-imagepuller )

prepull.yaml

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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

@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.