Kubernetes: Image pull policies

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On Kubernetes we can configure using the Pod manifest under which conditions we want to query the container registry to pull images by using the imagePullPolicy setting. We can configure the it on several objects like Deployment, StatefulSet, Pod, Job... In fact, we can set it on any object that includes a Pod template

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: test-pod
  namespace: demo
spec:
  containers:
  - image: alpine
    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
(...)

05/05/2021