`make container-serve` fails with `manifest unknown` for pinned Hugo image tag

[seshikanthguduri]

What happened

Running make container-serve on main (commit ) as of 2026-07-20 fails:

Unable to find image 'gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-1d5bbea2c974' locally
docker: Error response from daemon: manifest for gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-1d5bbea2c974 not found: manifest unknown: Failed to fetch "v0.144.2-1d5bbea2c974"

Run 'docker run --help' for more information
make: *** [container-serve] Error 125

The Makefile pins gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-1d5bbea2c974 but that tag is no longer available in the registry.

Workaround

Install Hugo 0.144.2 locally and run hugo server directly, or use hugo-0.144.2 server --buildDrafts --buildFuture --disableFastRender.

Related

• Previous instance: Can't run website in a container via make container-serve due to the image absence #49460 (closed 2025-03-20)

Environment

• macOS: Sequoia version 15.7.7 (also confirmed via CI logs)
• Docker: Docker version 29.6.2 build dfc4efb1e2
• Hugo image tag (pinned): v0.144.2-1d5bbea2c974

Suggested fix

Pin to a floating tag (e.g., v0.144.2-latest) or verify image availability in the release process.

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[lmktfy]

See issue #56584 for a good suggested fix.

/triage accepted

[TineoC]

@lmktfy with #56605 (comment), make container-serve is passing locally

Can this issue be closed?

❯ make container-serve
"docker" run --rm --interactive --tty --cap-drop=ALL --cap-add=AUDIT_WRITE --read-only --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/.git,target=/src/.git,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/archetypes,target=/src/archetypes,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/assets,target=/src/assets,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/content,target=/src/content,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/data,target=/src/data,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/i18n,target=/src/i18n,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/layouts,target=/src/layouts,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/static,target=/src/static,readonly --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-mode=01777 --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/hugo.toml,target=/src/hugo.toml,readonly --mount type=bind,source=/Users/tineoc/Documents/Code/website/hugo.server.toml,target=/src/hugo.server.toml,readonly \
                -p 1313:1313 gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-9d3727724f2d \
                hugo server --config hugo.toml,hugo.server.toml --buildDrafts --buildFuture --environment development --bind 0.0.0.0 --destination /tmp/public --cleanDestinationDir --noBuildLock --renderSegments all
Unable to find image 'gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-9d3727724f2d' locally
v0.144.2-9d3727724f2d: Pulling from k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo
5de55e5ef9c0: Already exists 
199fe782dffa: Already exists 
b71433195403: Already exists 
c811100012b8: Already exists 
4f4fb700ef54: Already exists 
2739843336eb: Already exists 
3cf6a709466f: Already exists 
f0bcca9a7e65: Already exists 
553a73d8e767: Already exists 
93f2f31cf2ba: Already exists 
87a386860519: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:f190b79636302c03016ad466ae4138f7ae0f4443a881493ba2b1f69a7eccb0af
Status: Downloaded newer image for gcr.io/k8s-staging-sig-docs/k8s-website-hugo:v0.144.2-9d3727724f2d
Watching for changes in /src/{archetypes,assets,content,data,i18n,layouts,node_modules,package.json,static}
Watching for config changes in /src/hugo.toml, /src/hugo.server.toml, /src/node_modules/docsy/hugo.yaml
Start building sites … 
hugo v0.144.2+extended linux/arm64 BuildDate=unknown

WARN  Failed to get translated string for language "es" and ID "community_introduce": template: :1:652: executing "" at <.link>: can't evaluate field link in type page.PageWithContext

                   |  EN  | BN  | ZH-CN | FR  | DE  | HI  | ID  | IT  | JA  | KO  | FA  | PL  | PT-BR | RU  | ES  | UK  | VI   
-------------------+------+-----+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------+-----+-----+-----+------
  Pages            | 2756 | 307 |  2253 | 533 | 287 | 222 | 443 | 164 | 777 | 733 | 264 | 202 |   497 | 273 | 396 | 197 | 385  
  Paginator pages  |   75 |   0 |    34 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0  
  Non-page files   |  968 | 725 |   835 |  87 |  86 |  75 |  83 |  44 | 604 |  96 |  33 |  79 |    89 |  84 |  87 |  85 | 284  
  Static files     |  845 | 845 |   845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845 |   845 | 845 | 845 | 845 | 845  
  Processed images |   14 |  13 |     1 |  13 |  13 |  13 |   0 |  13 |   0 |  13 |  13 |  13 |    13 |  13 |  13 |  13 |  13  
  Aliases          |   10 |   1 |     8 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   5 |   1 |   3 |   3 |   0 |   0 |     4 |   4 |   2 |   1 |   0  
  Cleaned          |    0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |     0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0  

Built in 63285 ms
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from disk
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 0.0.0.0) 
Press Ctrl+C to stop

[lmktfy]

…with #56605 (comment), make container-serve is passing locally

Can this issue be closed?

@TineoC what's your view on that question?

[TineoC]

I think this is covered: #56605 (comment), and this one is good to be closed.

What I'd like is for there to be mechanisms to prevent this in the future and address it in a separate GitHub issue, as I see there are several instances where this has happened in the project.