# Issue by awx-operator update

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-by-awx-operator-update/37060>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, kubernetes\
**Created:** [September 2, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-by-awx-operator-update/37060 "2022-09-02T13:54:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hieronymus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/hieronymus/32/1624_2.png) [@hieronymus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hieronymus)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-by-awx-operator-update/37060/1 "2022-09-02T13:54:44Z")

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Hello,

I followed the procedure for upgrading awx-operator but the awx-operator-controller-manager will not be running.  
The issue seems to be the image:  
Warning Failed 7m38s (x3 over 8m23s) kubelet Failed to pull image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98)”: rpc error: code = NotFound desc = failed to pull and unpack image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98)”: failed to resolve reference “[quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98)”: [quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98:](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98:) not found  
Warning Failed 7m38s (x3 over 8m23s) kubelet Error: ErrImagePull  
Warning Failed 7m3s (x6 over 8m22s) kubelet Error: ImagePullBackOff  
Normal Pulling 6m52s (x4 over 8m23s) kubelet Pulling image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98)”  
Normal BackOff 3m9s (x22 over 8m22s) kubelet Back-off pulling image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:0.28.0-9-g1bddb98)”

So, I’ve tried to replace the version in kustomization.yaml like that be it isn’t working:  
[…]  
apiVersion: [kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1](http://kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1)  
kind: Kustomization  
images:

- name: controller  
newName: [quay.io/ansible/awx-operator](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator)  
newTag: 0.28.0

Has anyone an Idea where is the problem and how to solve it?  
Thank you a lot for your help

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-by-awx-operator-update/37060/2 "2022-09-02T17:07:28Z")

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The make file auto grabs the version by looking at git describe output, sounds like maybe you checked out a non-released branch of awx-operator

You can specify the VERSION when calling make deploy

e…g

“VERSION=latest make deploy”, which should pull [quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:latest](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-operator:latest)

you can also do VERSION=devel

let us know if that helps!

AWX Team

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**Author:** ![hieronymus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/hieronymus/32/1624_2.png) [@hieronymus](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hieronymus)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-by-awx-operator-update/37060/3 "2022-09-02T18:05:27Z")

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VERSION resolved my issue.  
Really great thing… thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards