Error from server (BadRequest): container "espace-client-client" in pod "espace-client-client" is waiting to start: trying and failing to pull image - docker

Question

I've deployed my first app on my Kubernetes prod cluster a month ago.
I could deploy my 2 services (front / back) from gitlab registry.
Now, I pushed a new docker image to gitlab registry and would like to redeploy it in prod:
Here is my deployment file:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
annotations:
reloader.stakater.com/auto: "true"
labels:
app: espace-client-client
name: espace-client-client
namespace: espace-client
spec:
replicas: 1
strategy: {}
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: espace-client-client
spec:
containers:
- envFrom:
- secretRef:
name: espace-client-client-env
image: registry.gitlab.com/xxx/espace_client/client:latest
name: espace-client-client
ports:
- containerPort: 3000
resources: {}
restartPolicy: Always
imagePullSecrets:
- name: gitlab-registry
I have no clue what is inside gitlab-registry. I didn't do it myself, and the people who did it left the crew :( Nevertheless, I have all the permissions, so, I only need to know what to put in the secret, and maybe delete it and recreate it.
It seems that secret is based on my .docker/config.json
➜ espace-client git:(k8s) ✗ kubectl describe secrets gitlab-registry
Name: gitlab-registry
Namespace: default
Labels: <none>
Annotations: <none>
Type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
Data
====
.dockerconfigjson: 174 bytes
I tried to delete existing secret, logout with
docker logout registry.gitlab.com
kubectl delete secret gitlab-registry
Then login again:
docker login registry.gitlab.com -u myGitlabUser
Password:
Login Succeeded
and pull image with:
docker pull registry.gitlab.com/xxx/espace_client/client:latest
which worked.
file: ~/.docker/config.json is looking weird:
{
"auths": {
"registry.gitlab.com": {}
},
"HttpHeaders": {
"User-Agent": "Docker-Client/18.09.6 (linux)"
},
"credsStore": "secretservice"
}
It doesn't seem to contain any credential...
Then I recreate my secret
kubectl create secret generic gitlab-registry \
--from-file=.dockerconfigjson=/home/julien/.docker/config.json \
--type=kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
I also tried to do :
kubectl create secret docker-registry gitlab-registry --docker-server=registry.gitlab.com --docker-username=<your-name> --docker-password=<your-pword> --docker-email=<your-email>
and deploy again:
kubectl rollout restart deployment/espace-client-client -n espace-client
but I still have the same error:
Error from server (BadRequest): container "espace-client-client" in pod "espace-client-client-6c8b88f795-wcrlh" is waiting to start: trying and failing to pull image

Answer 1

You have to update the gitlab-registry secret because this item is used to let Kubelet to pull the protected image using credentials.
Please, delete the old secret with kubectl -n yournamespace delete secret gitlab-registry and recreate it typing credentials:
kubectl -n yournamespace create secret docker-registry my-secret --docker-server=DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER --docker-username=DOCKER_USER --docker-password=DOCKER_PASSWORD[ --docker-email=DOCKER_EMAIL]
where:
- DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER is the GitLab Docker registry instance
- DOCKER_USER is the username of the robot account to pull images
- DOCKER_PASSWORD is the password attached to the robot account
You could ignore docker-email since it's not mandatory (note the square brackets).