Before creating a deployment, we need to have our Docker image ready and published to a registry, the same as the Docker Hub for example. Of course, it can also be a private repository hosted in your organization. As you remember from the Chapter 7, Introduction to Kubernetes, each Docker container in a Pod has its own image. By default, the kubectl process in a Pod will try to pull each image from the specified registry. You can change this behavior by specifying a value for the imagePullPolicy property in a deployment descriptor. It can have the following values:
- IfNotPresent: With this setting, the image will be pulled from the registry only if not present on the local host
- Never: With this one, kubelet will use ...
