<p>I'm new to Kubernetes and I'm learning about it.
Are there any circumstances where Kubernetes is used to create a Docker image instead of pulling it from a repository ?</p>

femibyte
<p>Kubernetes natively does not create images. But you can run a piece of software such <a href="https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko" rel="noreferrer">kaniko</a> in the kubernetes cluster to achieve it. Kaniko is a tool to build container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster.</p>

<p>The kaniko executor image is responsible for building an image from a Dockerfile and pushing it to a registry. Within the executor image, we extract the filesystem of the base image (the FROM image in the Dockerfile). We then execute the commands in the Dockerfile, snapshotting the filesystem in userspace after each one. After each command, we append a layer of changed files to the base image (if there are any) and update image metadata</p>
