Solution is to build the images locally and push it to a registry. After that you can set the base_image in the pipeline codes and use it. HACK: You also can connect to minikubes docker daemon and build the image there. After that k8s would have that image locally and no need to pull it. Caveat: Pulling images from a remote repository may be a threat because the container should be able to communicate with the outside world. Check it out