Change:
command: - /bin/sh - -c <del> - "for i in gcr.io/google_containers/busybox gcr.io/google_containers/busybox:1.24 gcr.io/google_containers/dnsutils:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/eptest:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/fakegitserver:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/hostexec:1.2 gcr.io/google_containers/iperf:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/jessie-dnsutils:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/liveness:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/mounttest:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/mounttest-user:0.5 gcr.io/google_containers/netexec:1.4 gcr.io/google_containers/netexec:1.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nettest:1.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nettest:1.8 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-slim:0.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-slim:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/n-way-http:1.0 gcr.io/google_containers/pause:2.0 gcr.io/google_containers/pause-amd64:3.0 gcr.io/google_containers/porter:cd5cb5791ebaa8641955f0e8c2a9bed669b1eaab gcr.io/google_containers/portforwardtester:1.2 gcr.io/google_containers/redis:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/resource_consumer:beta4 gcr.io/google_containers/resource_consumer/controller:beta4 gcr.io/google_containers/serve_hostname:v1.4 gcr.io/google_containers/test-webserver:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/ubuntu:14.04 gcr.io/google_containers/update-demo:kitten gcr.io/google_containers/update-demo:nautilus gcr.io/google_containers/volume-ceph:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-gluster:0.2 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-iscsi:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-nfs:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-rbd:0.1 gcr.io/google_samples/gb-redisslave:v1 gcr.io/google_containers/redis:v1; do echo $(date '+%X') pulling $i; docker pull $i 1>/dev/null; done; exit 0;" </del> <ins> - "for i in gcr.io/google_containers/alpine-with-bash:1.0 gcr.io/google_containers/apparmor-loader:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/busybox:1.24 gcr.io/google_containers/dnsutils:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/e2e-net-amd64:1.0 gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.4 gcr.io/google_containers/eptest:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/fakegitserver:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/galera-install:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/hostexec:1.2 gcr.io/google_containers/invalid-image:invalid-tag gcr.io/google_containers/iperf:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/jessie-dnsutils:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/k8s-dns-dnsmasq-amd64:1.13.0 gcr.io/google_containers/liveness:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/logs-generator:v0.1.0 gcr.io/google_containers/mounttest:0.7 gcr.io/google_containers/mounttest:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/mounttest-user:0.5 gcr.io/google_containers/mysql-galera:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/mysql-healthz:1.0 gcr.io/google_containers/netexec:1.4 gcr.io/google_containers/netexec:1.5 gcr.io/google_containers/netexec:1.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nettest:1.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx:1.7.9 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-ingress-controller:0.9.0-beta.1 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-slim:0.7 gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-slim:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/node-problem-detector:v0.3.0 gcr.io/google_containers/pause gcr.io/google_containers/porter:cd5cb5791ebaa8641955f0e8c2a9bed669b1eaab gcr.io/google_containers/portforwardtester:1.2 gcr.io/google_containers/redis-install-3.2.0:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/resource_consumer:beta4 gcr.io/google_containers/resource_consumer/controller:beta4 gcr.io/google_containers/serve_hostname:v1.4 gcr.io/google_containers/servicelb:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/test-webserver:e2e gcr.io/google_containers/update-demo:kitten gcr.io/google_containers/update-demo:nautilus gcr.io/google_containers/volume-ceph:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-gluster:0.2 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-iscsi:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-nfs:0.8 gcr.io/google_containers/volume-rbd:0.1 gcr.io/google_containers/zookeeper-install-3.5.0-alpha:e2e gcr.io/google_samples/gb-redisslave:nonexistent; do echo $(date '+%X') pulling $i; docker pull $i 1>/dev/null; done; exit 0;" </ins> securityContext: privileged: true volumeMounts:

Discussion:
Kubernetes version (use ): master What happened: Pulling the redis image takes a while, like 30 seconds in GCE. This might be leading to periodic timeouts in tests like . What you expected to happen: Tests shouldn't depend on large images that take a potentially long time to pull. proposed fix to reduce flakiness we can increase the replica count on this test to 2 or make the redis image we use smaller (or not use redis at all and just use a simpler smaller image)
cc (considering this as a bug since we shouldnt need a 500MG image just to test kubectl :))
This should be as simple as changing the current to use alpine and install redis, instead of basing it off debian, installing gcc, and compiling redis from source :-) The image should be ~10MB.