An image does not exist locally with the tag: while pushing image to local registry

Question

I am trying to push an image to a local registry running in minikube but get the below error:

Successfully built ee84225eb459 Successfully tagged user/apiserver:0.0.1  $ docker push localhost:5000/user/apiserver:0.0.1  The push refers to a repository [localhost:5000/user/apiserver] An image does not exist locally with the tag: localhost:5000/user/apiserver 

I have already tried starting minikube with below:

minikube start --vm-driver xhyve --insecure-registry localhost:5000 eval $(minikube docker-env) 

Answer 1

You need to tag and push the image. When tagging an image, you can use the image identifier (imageId). It is listed when showing the list of all images with docker images. Syntax and an example (using imageId) for creating a tag are:

docker tag <imageId or imageName> <hostname>:<repository-port>/<image>:<tag> docker tag af340544ed62 example.com:18444/hello-world:mytag 

Once the tag, which can be equivalent to a version, is created successfully, you can confirm its creation with docker images and issue the push with the syntax:

docker push <hostname>:<repository-port>/<image>:<tag> 

There is an example for local nexus repository

Answer 2

Successfully tagged user/apiserver:0.0.1  docker push localhost:5000/user/apiserver:0.0.1 

Image tags need to include the registry name/port for you to push them anywhere other than the default registry (docker hub). So you need to tag your image as localhost:5000/user/apiserver:0.0.1 rather than user/apiserver:0.0.1. Then you'll be able to push to your local registry.