pull access denied repository does not exist or may require docker login

Question

I am using Laravel 4.2 with docker. I setup it on local. It worked without any problem but when I am trying to setup online using same procedure then I am getting error

Answer 1

This error message might possibly indicate something else.

In my case I defined another Docker-Image elsewhere from which the current Docker inherited its settings (docker-compos.yml):

FROM my_own_image:latest

The error message I got:

qohelet$ docker-compose up
Building web
Step 1/22 : FROM my_own_image:latest
ERROR: Service 'web' failed to build: pull access denied for my_own_image, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'

Due to a reinstall the previous Docker were gone and I couldn't build my docker using docker-compose up with this command:

sudo docker build -t my_own_image:latest -f MyOwnImage.Dockerfile .

In your specific case you might have defined your own php-docker.

Answer 2

Try this in your docker-compose.yml file

image: php:rc-zts-alpine

Answer 3

Docker might have lost the authentication data. So you'll have to reauthenticate with your registry provider. With AWS for example:

aws ecr get-login --region us-west-2 --no-include-email

And then copy and paste that resulting "docker login..." to authenticated docker.

Source: Amazon ECR Registeries

Answer 4

The message usually comes when you put the wrong image name. Please check your image if it exists on the Docker repository with the correct tag. It helped me.

docker run -d -p 80:80 --name ngnix ngnix:latest
Unable to find image 'ngnix:latest' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for ngnix, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied.
See 'docker run --help'.
$ docker run -d -p 80:80 --name nginx nginx:latest
Unable to find image 'nginx:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/nginx

Answer 5

I had the same issue when working with docker-composer. In my case it was an Amazon AWS ECR private registry. It seems to be a bug in docker-compose

https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1622#issuecomment-162988389

After adding the full path "myrepo/myimage" to docker compose yaml

image: xxxxxxxxx.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myrepo:myimage

it was all fine.

Answer 6

Make sure the image exists in docker hub. To me, I was trying to pull MongoDB using the command docker run mongodb which is incorrect. In the docker hub, the image name is mongo.