Can't load images in minikube after deploying with aspirate

[Hejle]

🔥 Bug Description

When running aspirate apply, it adds the images to the local Docker Desktop Images and creates everything "correctly" in minikube. However, it seems like Minikube can't reach the images in the local Docker Desktop Images. This is the error-message i get from minikube (seen through lens).

Error: ImagePullBackOff Failed to pull image "webfrontend:latest": Error response from daemon: pull access denied for webfrontend, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied Error: ImagePullBackOff Back-off pulling image "webfrontend:latest"

🔍 Steps to Reproduce the Bug

Setup minikube

1. winget install minikube
2. minikube start (this should use Docker Desktop as the driver)

   Setup Aspire Project

3. dotnet new aspire-starter
4. cd *.AppHost

   Generate

5. aspirate generate
6. Choose all Components
7. Choose IfNotPresent as image pull policy
8. Create Password and generate secrets
9. Choose 'y' and generate kustomize manifest

   Apply

10. aspirate apply
11. insert password from step 8
12. Choose yes to deploy the generated manifests to a kubernetes cluster defined in your kubeconfig file
13. Select minikube as the kubernetes context

    Check status in k8

14. Open Lens to check minikube.
15. Check Events-tab to see error messages.

🧯 Possible Solution

I have used this to get my apps deployed. (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/18021#issuecomment-1953589210)

docker image save -o image.tar my_image:tag minikube image load image.tar

[prom3theu5]

The manual loading definitely should not be required as according to the minicube docs, it uses docker-env by default

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/pushing/

Are you certain you used IfNotPresent? That's the error I would expect to see if it was set to Always

Can you also try Never?

[prom3theu5]

You could try to run this before aspirate in the same terminal / PowerShell window

minikube docker-env | Invoke-Expression

[Hejle]

Thank you for the quick reply.

Setting it to Never instead of IfNotPresent, did not fix it.

However running minikube docker-env | Invoke-Expression did fix it. Now the images being built by aspirate generate is not added to my local Docker Desktop Images, but directly into minikubes docker instance.

Anyway it works for me and i can now continue playing around with kubernetes, aspire and aspirate. Thanks for the help, and thanks for the tool! :)

[prom3theu5]

Yw 😃 thanks a lot Glad it's working for you!