<p>Am using <code>minikube</code> to test out the deployment and was going through <a href="https://itnext.io/running-asp-net-core-on-minikube-ad69472c4c95?gi=c0651899e562" rel="noreferrer">this</a> link</p>
<p>And my manifest file for deployment is like</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: webapp
spec:
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: webapp
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: webapp
        imagePullPolicy: Never # &lt;-- here we go!
        image: sams
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
</code></pre>
<p>and after this when I tried to execute the below commands got output</p>
<pre><code>user@usesr:~/Downloads$ kubectl create -f mydeployment.yaml --validate=false

deployment &quot;webapp&quot; created

user@user:~/Downloads$ kubectl get deployments

NAME      DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
----     --------   -------   ----------   ---------   ----              
webapp    1         1         1            0           9s

user@user:~/Downloads$ kubectl get pods

NAME                     READY     STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
----     --------   -------   ----------   ---------   ----              
webapp-5bf5bd94d-2xgs8   0/1       ErrImageNeverPull   0          21s
</code></pre>
<p>I tried to pull images even from <code>Docker-Hub</code> by removing line <code>imagePullPolicy: Never </code> from the <code>deployment.yml</code> But getting the same error.
Can anyone help me here to identify where and what's going wrong?</p>
<h2>Updated the question as per the comment</h2>
<pre><code>kubectl describe pod $POD_NAME
Name:           webapp-5bf5bd94d-2xgs8
Namespace:      default
Node:           minikube/10.0.2.15
Start Time:     Fri, 31 May 2019 14:25:41 +0530
Labels:         app=webapp
            pod-template-hash=5bf5bd94d
Annotations:    &lt;none&gt;
Status:         Pending
IP:             172.17.0.4
Controlled By:  ReplicaSet/webapp-5bf5bd94d
Containers:
  webapp:
    Container ID:   
    Image:          sams
    Image ID:       
    Port:           80/TCP
    State:          Waiting
      Reason:       ErrImageNeverPull
    Ready:          False
    Restart Count:  0
    Environment:    &lt;none&gt;
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from default-token-wf82w (ro)
Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True 
  Ready             False 
  ContainersReady   False 
  PodScheduled      True 
Volumes:
  default-token-wf82w:
    Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName:  default-token-wf82w
    Optional:    false
QoS Class:       BestEffort
Node-Selectors:  &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:     node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute for 300s
             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute for 300s
Events:
  Type     Reason             Age                From               Message
  ----     ------             ----               ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled          18m                default-scheduler  Successfully assigned default/webapp-5bf5bd94d-2xgs8 to minikube
  Warning  ErrImageNeverPull  8m (x50 over 18m)  kubelet, minikube  Container image &quot;sams&quot; is not present with pull policy of Never
  Warning  Failed             3m (x73 over 18m)  kubelet, minikube  Error: ErrImageNeverPull    

docker images:

REPOSITORY                             TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
----------                             ---                 --------            -------             ----
&lt;none&gt;                                 &lt;none&gt;              723ce2b3d962        3 hours ago         1.91GB
bean_ben501/sams                       latest              c7c4a04713f4        4 hours ago         278MB
sams                                   latest              c7c4a04713f4        4 hours ago         278MB
sams                                   v1                  c7c4a04713f4        4 hours ago         278MB
&lt;none&gt;                                 &lt;none&gt;              b222da630bc3        4 hours ago         1.91GB
mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk      2.2-stretch         e4747ec2aaff        9 days ago          1.74GB
mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet   2.2-stretch-slim    f6d51449c477        9 days ago          260MB
</code></pre>
<hr />

<blockquote>
<p>When using a single VM for Kubernetes, it’s useful to reuse Minikube’s built-in Docker daemon. Reusing the built-in daemon means you don’t have to build a Docker registry on your host machine and push the image into it. Instead, you can build inside the same Docker daemon as Minikube, which speeds up local experiments.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The following command does the magic
<code>eval $(minikube docker-env)</code>
<strong>Then you have to rebuild your image again.</strong></p>
<p>for <code>imagePullPolicy: Never</code> the images need to be on the minikube node.</p>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52310599/what-does-minikube-docker-env-mean">This answer provide details </a></p>
<p><a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/#use-local-images-by-re-using-the-docker-daemon" rel="noreferrer">local-images-in minikube docker environment</a></p>
