In the case where you still have an image locally, trying to build will fail with an error complaining about not being able to load metadata for the image because a HEAD request failed. So, the real question is, why isn't there a way to disable the HEAD request for loading metadata for images? Perhaps there's a way and I don't know it.

Yeah, this is the actual error that I'm running into. Metadata pages are returning 401 and bailing out of the build.

Sure? --pull=missing should be the default.

While I haven’t tried --pull=missing, I have tried --pull=never, which I assume is a stricter version and it was still attempting the HEAD request.

You might still have it on your dev box or build box

  docker image ls
  docker tag name/name:version your.registry/here/name/name:version
  docker push your.registry/here/name/name:version

Per sibling comment, public.ecr.aws/docker/library/.... works even better

This saved me. I was able to push image from one of my nodes. Thank you.

This is the way tho this can lead to fun moments like I was just setting up a new cluster and couldn't figure out why I was having problems pulling images when the other clusters were pulling just fine.

Took me a while to think of checking the docker hub status page.