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#23659·minikube

[1.39.0] `minikube image tag` require fully qualified names

Author: markmandelCreated Sep 7, 2026Updated Sep 8, 2026
Labelstriage/discussco/runtime/containerdco/docker-driverkind/regressionarea/image

What Happened?

Attempting to add a new tag to an image already in minikube has stopped working at of 1.39.0 - we use this as part of the development flow for Agones.

There is no error, just that the tagging simply does not happen.

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ minikube version
minikube version: v1.39.0
commit: 7a9f6a841470a207de8cf4bafcccee0969d8ba10

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ minikube image load local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux-amd64 -p agones

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones took 5s
❯ minikube image ls -p agones
registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10.1
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/etcd:3.6.6-0
registry.k8s.io/coredns/coredns:v1.13.1
gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
docker.io/local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux-amd64
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd:v20260820-69b56db7
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd:v20250512-df8de77b

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ minikube image tag local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux-amd64 local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux -p agones

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ minikube image ls -p agones
registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10.1
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.35.6
registry.k8s.io/etcd:3.6.6-0
registry.k8s.io/coredns/coredns:v1.13.1
gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
docker.io/local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux-amd64
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd:v20260820-69b56db7
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd:v20250512-df8de77b

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ eval $(minikube docker-env -p agones)
❗  Using the docker-env command with the containerd runtime is a highly experimental feature, please provide feedback or contribute to make it better
Identity added: /home/mark/.minikube/machines/agones/id_rsa (/home/mark/.minikube/machines/agones/id_rsa)
Host added: /home/mark/.ssh/known_hosts ([127.0.0.1]:32778)

agones/build on  main  on ☸ agones
❯ docker images
                                                                                                                                                                         i Info →   U  In Use
IMAGE                                             ID             DISK USAGE   CONTENT SIZE   EXTRA
gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5        18eb69d1418e       31.5MB             0B
kindest/kindnetd:v20250512-df8de77b               07a4b3fe0077        112MB             0B
kindest/kindnetd:v20260820-69b56db7               526969f0a1a7        102MB             0B
local/agones-sdk:1.61.0-dev-12db9e2-linux-amd64   e5edbacd1557       88.3MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/coredns/coredns:v1.13.1           9b9128672209       81.5MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/etcd:3.6.6-0                      60a30b5d81b2       65.8MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver:v1.35.6            5bb9700f458a       93.2MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager:v1.35.6   7277ab445774       79.3MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy:v1.35.6                d8cb1b26c2c9       74.3MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler:v1.35.6            51a32afb3c69       55.1MB             0B
registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10.1                      278fb9dbcca9        741kB             0B

This is my machine:

❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid
Release:	n/a
Codename:	forky

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log.txt

Operating System

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Driver

Docker

Source: kubernetes/minikube

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