How to deploy container to local kubernetes environment such as kind?

Question

I built a docker image on local. Its name is myapp.

Deploy it as myjob.yaml:

apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: myapp
spec:
  schedule: "*/2 * * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          containers:
            - name: myapp
              image: myapp

Use kind as a local k8s cluster environment. Load this image:

kind load docker-image myapp

Deploy app:

kubectl apply -f myjob.yaml

Confirm the pods' log, it can find the image myapp.

Is it necessary to create a container register on local to serve images?

Answer 1

Providing an answer based on @David Maze comment.

There's a note in the kind documentation that specifying image: myapp with an implicit ...:latest tag will cause the cluster to try to pull the image again, so you either need a per-build tag (preferred) or to explicitly specify imagePullPolicy: Never