istio bookinfo sample application deployment failed for "ImagePullBackOff"

Question

I am trying to deploy istio's sample bookinfo application using the below command:

kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

from here

but each time I am getting ImagePullBackoff error like this:

NAME                              READY   STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-c74755ddf-m878f        2/2     Running            0          6m32s
productpage-v1-778ddd95c6-pdqsk   2/2     Running            0          6m32s
ratings-v1-5564969465-956bq       2/2     Running            0          6m32s
reviews-v1-56f6655686-j7lb6       1/2     ImagePullBackOff   0          6m32s
reviews-v2-6b977f8ff5-55tgm       1/2     ImagePullBackOff   0          6m32s
reviews-v3-776b979464-9v7x5       1/2     ImagePullBackOff   0          6m32s

For error details, I have run :

kubectl describe pod reviews-v1-56f6655686-j7lb6

Which returns these:

Events:
  Type     Reason     Age                    From               Message
  ----     ------     ----                   ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled  7m41s                  default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/reviews-v1-56f6655686-j7lb6 to minikube
  Normal   Pulled     7m39s                  kubelet            Container image "docker.io/istio/proxyv2:1.15.3" already present on machine
  Normal   Created    7m39s                  kubelet            Created container istio-init
  Normal   Started    7m39s                  kubelet            Started container istio-init
  Warning  Failed     5m39s                  kubelet            Failed to pull image "docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:1.17.0": rpc error: code = Unknown desc = context deadline exceeded
  Warning  Failed     5m39s                  kubelet            Error: ErrImagePull
  Normal   Pulled     5m39s                  kubelet            Container image "docker.io/istio/proxyv2:1.15.3" already present on machine
  Normal   Created    5m39s                  kubelet            Created container istio-proxy
  Normal   Started    5m39s                  kubelet            Started container istio-proxy
  Normal   BackOff    5m36s (x3 over 5m38s)  kubelet            Back-off pulling image "docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:1.17.0"
  Warning  Failed     5m36s (x3 over 5m38s)  kubelet            Error: ImagePullBackOff
  Normal   Pulling    5m25s (x2 over 7m38s)  kubelet            Pulling image "docker.io/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:1.17.0"

Do I need to build dockerfile first and push it to the local repository? There are no clear instructions there or I failed to find any.

Can anybody help?

paltaa · Answer 1 · 2022-11-04T19:17:16.367

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If you check in dockerhub the image is there:

https://hub.docker.com/r/istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1/tags

So the error that you need to deal with is context deadline exceeded while trying to pull it from dockerhub. This is likely a networking error (a generic Go error saying it took too long), depending on where your cluster is running you can do manually a docker pull from the nodes and that should work.

EDIT: for minikube do a minikube ssh and then a docker pull

edited Nov 04 '22 at 19:17

answered Nov 04 '22 at 18:36

paltaa

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Already tried by docker pull istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:latest ( with version also ) but no luck yet – mnhmilu Nov 04 '22 at 18:56
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need to use minikube ssh, it solved my problem – mnhmilu Nov 04 '22 at 19:10
I will add it to my answer then, great! – paltaa Nov 04 '22 at 19:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '22 at 19:08

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Solved the problem by below command :

 minikube ssh docker pull istio/examples-bookinfo-reviews-v1:1.17.0

from this git issues here

Also How to use local docker images with Minikube?

Hope this may help somebody

answered Nov 04 '22 at 19:08

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istio bookinfo sample application deployment failed for "ImagePullBackOff"

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