Pull a local image to run a pod in Kubernetes

AFAIR minikube runs in a VM hence it will not see the images you've built locally on a host machine, but... as stated in https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/docs/reusing_the_docker_daemon.md you can use eval $(minikube docker-env) to actually utilise docker daemon running on minikube, and henceforth build your image on the minikubes docker and thus expect it to be available to the minikubes k8s engine without pulling from external registry

You can point your docker client to the VM's docker daemon by running

eval $(minikube docker-env)

Then you can build your image normally and create your kubernetes resources normally using kubectl. Make sure that you have

imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent

in your YAML or JSON specs.

Additionally, there is a flag to pass in insecure registries to the minikube VM. However, this must be specified the first time you create the machine.

minikube start --insecure-registry

You may also want to read this when using a private registry http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/images/