Kubernetes L4: Deploy Redis Deployment on Kubernetes - image cannot be pulled

KodeKloud Engineer
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#1

redis:alpine image cannot be pulled :thinking:. I tried both redis:alpine and redis/redis:alpine.
Is this issue known or do I not see any typos or is there something tricky about it?

thor@jumphost ~$ kubectl get pod
NAME                                READY   STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
redis-deployment-7b46d959d5-rj94b   0/1     ImagePullBackOff   0          68s
redis-deployment-7bccd99d85-q7pvb   0/1     ImagePullBackOff   0          5m40s

thor@jumphost ~$ kubectl describe deployments.apps redis
Name:                   redis-deployment
Namespace:              default
CreationTimestamp:      Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:34:29 +0000
Labels:                 app=redis-deployment
Annotations:            deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 3
Selector:               app=redis-deployment
Replicas:               1 desired | 1 updated | 2 total | 0 available | 2 unavailable
StrategyType:           RollingUpdate
MinReadySeconds:        0
RollingUpdateStrategy:  25% max unavailable, 25% max surge
Pod Template:
  Labels:  app=redis-deployment
  Containers:
   redis-container:
    Image:      redis:alpine
    Port:       6379/TCP
#2

We know about this. There is a problem with the internal registry mirror which engineers have not managed to fix yet.
Before you ask, I an afraid I don’t know how long it will take them