Kubernetes: Unable to create repository

Question

I'm following Kubernete's getting started guide. Everything went smoothly until I ran

$ gcloud docker push gcr.io/<PROJECT ID>/hello-node:v1

(Where is, well, my project id). For some reason, Kubernetes is not able to push to the registry. This is what I get:

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The push refers to a repository [gcr.io/kubernetes-poc-1320/hello-node]
18465c0e312f: Preparing 
5f70bf18a086: Preparing 
9f7afc4ce40e: Preparing 
828b3885b7b1: Preparing 
5dce5ebb917f: Preparing 
8befcf623ce4: Waiting 
3d5a262d6929: Waiting 
6eb35183d3b8: Waiting 
denied: Unable to create the repository, please check that you have access to do so.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Note that I have run. $ gcloud init, so I've logged in.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

For me, having the same error, I found I missed the "gcloud" in the beginning. That was because previous 2 commands started with docker and I just glanced over the changes after docker.

~/gs-spring-boot/complete$ docker -- push gcr.io/kubernetes-codelab-1xxxxx/hello-java:v1

correct:

~/gs-spring-boot/complete$ gcloud docker -- push gcr.io/kubernetes-codelab-1xxxxx/hello-java:v1

Answer 2

What do you use as a project id? It shouldn't be "my-kubernetes-codelab", it should be "my-kubernetes-codelab-234231" or whatever your numbered version is. This was my problem.

Answer 3

None of the above solutions worked for me and I finally found out a solution. I'm using Windows 10 and looked at my C:/Users//.docker/config.json file and it looked like this.

{
    "auths": {
        "https://appengine.gcr.io": {},
        "https://asia.gcr.io": {},
        "https://b.gcr.io": {},
        "https://bucket.gcr.io": {},
        "https://eu.gcr.io": {},
        "https://gcr.io": {},
        "https://gcr.kubernetes.io": {},
        "https://us.gcr.io": {}
    },
    "credsStore": "wincred"
}

Removing the "credsStore": "wincred" line fixed the problem!

Answer 4

Edit: This worked for me months ago. New versions of Kubernetes might not have this problem, or this solution might not solve it :)

Ok, after struggling for hours with this, I finally managed to push it to th grc.io registry by changing my tag from a image:version notation to image/version, like this:

gcloud docker push gcr.io/<PROJECT ID>/hello-node/v1

after reading another guide from Kubernetes' documentation: https://cloud.google.com/container-registry/docs/pushing#pushing_to_the_registry

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

In https://stackoverflow.com/a/39996807/598513 I answered switching user/account

gcloud auth list
gcloud config set account example@gmail.com

Answer 6

When using docker-credential-helpers to store docker credentials in the OSX Keychain, gcloud docker -- push $registry/$project_id/<image>:<tag> fails as well.

Solution for me was to revert ~/.docker/config.json to not store credentials securely with the keychain

See also: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-common/issues/198

Answer 7

Ensure you are authenticated with Google Cloud.

$ gcloud auth application-default login

Double-check gcloud is pointing to your current project.

$ gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID

If you still have trouble, run gcloud info and take a look at the Last Log File. Note: gcloud auth login no longer writes application default credentials.

Answer 8

I was getting this same error because I was accidentally using the project name rather than the auto-generated id. The PROJECT_ID can be found via:

$ gcloud info

as well as in the Google Cloud dashboard: https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard

Silly, I realize, but I can imagine others making the same mistake :)

Answer 9

This solved it in my case:

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Short version:

Press Enable billing in the Container Engine screen in the https://console.cloud.google.com.

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Long version:

In my case I got the error because of an issue with setting billing in the google cloud platform console.

Although I entered all my credit card information and the screen of my Container Engine Screen in the google cloud platform console said Container Engine is getting ready. This may take a minute or more., it didn't work before I pressed Enable billing on the same screen. Then the gcloud docker push command finally worked.

Oddly enough after later returning to the Container Engine screen, it shows me Container Engine is getting ready. This may take a minute or more. and the button Enable billing again.. must be a bug in the console.

Answer 10

If you're using a GCE instance, you need to make sure it has the right Cloud API access scope. Since you can't edit the scopes on running instances, you can create a new instance using your current disk.

To do that, do the following

• Go to your instance page and click Edit
• Uncheck Delete boot disk when instance is deleted and click save
• Create a new instance using your previous disk and with write permissions on Storage.

Answer 11

run gcloud init and see whether you have logged in to the correct account. I once had this error because of i was trying to push image from different google account