How to retry image pull in a kubernetes Pods?

Question

I am new to kubernetes. I have an issue in the pods. When I run the command

 kubectl get pods

Result:

NAME                   READY     STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
mysql-apim-db-1viwg    1/1       Running            1          20h
mysql-govdb-qioee      1/1       Running            1          20h
mysql-userdb-l8q8c     1/1       Running            0          20h
wso2am-default-813fy   0/1       ImagePullBackOff   0          20h

Due to an issue of "wso2am-default-813fy" node, I need to restart it. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

In case of not having the yaml file:

kubectl get pod PODNAME -n NAMESPACE -o yaml | kubectl replace --force -f -

Answer 2

Usually in case of "ImagePullBackOff" it's retried after few seconds/minutes. In case you want to try again manually you can delete the old pod and recreate the pod. The one line command to delete and recreate the pod would be:

kubectl replace --force -f <yml_file_describing_pod>

Answer 3

$ kubectl replace --force -f <resource-file>

if all goes well, you should see something like:

<resource-type> <resource-name> deleted
<resource-type> <resource-name> replaced

details of this can be found in the Kubernetes documentation, "manage-deployment" and kubectl-cheatsheet pages at the time of writing.

Answer 4

If the Pod is part of a Deployment or Service, deleting it will restart the Pod and, potentially, place it onto another node:

$ kubectl delete po $POD_NAME

replace it if it's an individual Pod:

$ kubectl get po -n $namespace $POD_NAME -o yaml | kubectl replace -f -