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K8S-026Low severity-4 points

imagePullPolicy is Never

Part of Security, which counts for 30% of the overall score. When this check fires it deducts 4 points from that category, once per scan, no matter how many places it turns up.

What it detects

imagePullPolicy: Never runs whatever image happens to be cached on the node, which can be a stale or unexpected build the manifest did not intend.

Why it matters

imagePullPolicy: Never tells the kubelet to use only an image already cached on the node and never to pull. If the expected image is not present, or a stale or unrelated build with the same name is cached, the pod runs the wrong code or fails to start. This is fragile outside of local single-node development. The finding is low severity and a heuristic.

How to fix it

Use imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent for immutable version-tagged images or Always for images that may be updated, and make sure the image is pushed to a registry the cluster can reach. Reserve Never for local clusters like kind or minikube where you preload images intentionally.

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