# ImagePullBackOff error while deploying Elastic via ECK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [October 17, 2022, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739 "2022-10-17T07:38:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![alytkowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alytkowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alytkowski)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739/1 "2022-10-17T07:38:38Z")

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I'm trying to follow the tutorial from this page:

> **[Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes \[2.4\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-deploy-elasticsearch.html)**

, to deploy Elastic on K8s and I get ImagePullbackOff error, pod events below:

```auto
Events:

  Type Reason Age From Message

  ---- ------ ---- ---- -------

  Warning FailedScheduling 4m7s default-scheduler 0/1 nodes are available: 1 pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims. preemption: 0/1 nodes are available: 1 Preemption is not helpful for scheduling.

  Normal Scheduled 4m5s default-scheduler Successfully assigned default/ifcm-es-default-0 to minikube

  Warning Failed 2m4s kubelet Failed to pull image "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = context deadline exceeded

  Warning Failed 2m4s kubelet Error: ErrImagePull

  Normal BackOff 2m (x3 over 2m3s) kubelet Back-off pulling image "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3"

  Warning Failed 2m (x3 over 2m3s) kubelet Error: ImagePullBackOff

  Normal Pulling 105s (x2 over 4m3s) kubelet Pulling image "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3"

```

On the other thread someone suggested issuing docker pull command, which I did, successfully, but the ImagePullBackOff error still occurs, Kubernetes doesn't use the already downloaded image, tries to pull it and fails.  
Output from docker pull:

```auto
docker pull docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3

8.4.3: Pulling from elasticsearch/elasticsearch

Digest: sha256:739ec9d428869f16e9e02247d5082849ebb4302c87e0abf9f70971cbb40c3bab

Status: Image is up to date for docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3

docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.4.3

```

I'm using a VM with Ubuntu installed and a Bridged Network setup. Prior to starting minikube I've also done docker login command successfully.

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**Author:** ![kylemclaren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kylemclaren/32/100720_2.png) [@kylemclaren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kylemclaren)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739/2 "2022-10-18T19:59:52Z")

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Hi @alytkowski,

**Edit** : `imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent` will work too, but `Never` is the nuclear option!

Indeed, it looks like there is an [open issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/14789) with minikube and one of the recommended workarounds is to manually pull the image, as you did.

First, I would recommend that you confirm the image is loaded into the minikube cluster: `minikube ssh docker images | grep elasticsearch`

Then, you can use a slightly altered version of the manifest that we have in the docs to force k8s to use the local image instead of trying to pull it, by setting `imagePullPolicy: Never`

```yaml
cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 8.4.3
  nodeSets:
  - name: default
    count: 1
    config:
      node.store.allow_mmap: false
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: elasticsearch
          imagePullPolicy: Never
EOF

```

Hope this works for you 🍻

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**Author:** ![alytkowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alytkowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alytkowski)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739/3 "2022-10-19T06:50:03Z")

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Thank you Kyle! This works for me, it's exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/imagepullbackoff-error-while-deploying-elastic-via-eck/316739/4 "2022-11-16T06:50:28Z")

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