Introduction
If you’re a DevOps Engineer stuck working on a Windows machine, you probably know the pain. You’d rather be smashing Linux commands all day, but your manager doesn’t care about your preferences 😅. One day it’s “install Docker,” the next it’s “deploy on Kubernetes.” Sounds simple — until Minikube throws that dreaded error:
Failed to pull image "my-app"
In this blog, let’s walk through why this happens on Windows with WSL, and more importantly, how to fix it without losing your sanity.
Detailed Scenario
It would be a scenario where you are using a Windows Machine as a DevOps Engineer. Sounds boring. I also have the same opinion. But it’s not in your control. Therefore, you need to learn how to work on a Windows Machine as a DevOps & Cloud Engineer as well.
- So, the scenario is that you are using Windows and your team has asked you to install Docker on your local machine. As you are obsessed with Linux commands, you decided to install WSL(Windows Support for Linux) on your local machine.