<p><a href="https://www.docker.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Docker</a> provides a way to run the container using <code>docker run</code></p>

<p>Or just pull the container image using <code>docker pull</code></p>

<p>Found a <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/docker-cli-to-kubectl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">doc</a> showing mapping between docker commands and kubectl.</p>

<p>Can't find <code>docker pull</code> equivalent in this doc.</p>

<p>If there is no any such equivalent to <code>docker pull</code>, then is there any way to just pull an image using <code>kubectl</code> cli.</p>

mchawre
<p>In short - no, there is not.</p>

<p>And why would there be? Kubernetes is an orchestration tool for Docker, it will automatically pull pods for you if it needs them, so there's really no need to have a command to pull containers manually.</p>
