Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Making images available to Kubernetes

Before you can now deploy your actual microservices, you need to make sure that the Kubernetes cluster has access to your images. Typically, you will need to have your self-built images available in a container registry for this. If you are using Minikube and want to save yourself the hassle of setting up your own image registry, you can do the following instead:

$ eval $(minikube docker-env) 
$ docker image build -t myevents/eventservice .

The first command will instruct your local shell to connect not to your local Docker Engine, but the Docker Engine within the Minikube VM, instead. Then, using a regular docker container build command, you can build the container image you are going to use directly ...