Question : about local development for free users and pull policy

[rgunindi]

I see some text in the readme file here: https://github.com/openfaas/faas-netes/blob/dc9c84659707d5ed61dd429929aa8c8cb89640b1/README.md?plain=1#L123C16-L123C16

The part that says: If this is not desired behavior, OpenFaaS Pro customers can set the image_pull_policy environment variable to an alternative. IfNotPresent is particularly useful when developing locally with minikube. In this case, you can set your local environment to use minikube's docker so faas-cli build builds directly into minikube's image store.

Is this the correct way for local development for free users? Because users already have k8s and if they want to, they can change the image pull policy for these function deployments. Is this a present plus for pro customers? Isn't it ridiculous? Or am I missing something?

Thank you

[alexellis]

Hi @rgunindi if you're a commercial user of OpenFaaS, you should be buying a license. These limits and restrictions aren't an issue for the intended audience for Community Edition.

OpenFaaS Standard is for commercial development and production.

Hope this clears things up for you.

https://openfaas.com/pricing