kubeadm: [Kubeadm] Failing to pull images

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Versions

kubeadm version: v1.11.* (reproduced on all v1.11 and v1.12 releases)

Environment:

• Kubernetes version : v1.11.* (reproduced on all v1.11 and v1.12 releases)
• OS: RHEL 7.5
• Kernel: 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64

What happened?

When running kubeadm init the images fail to be pulled:

[root@pink01 ~]# kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=192.168.0.0/16 --kubernetes-version=v1.11.1
[init] using Kubernetes version: v1.11.1
[preflight] running pre-flight checks
I1031 06:34:55.007573    7218 kernel_validator.go:81] Validating kernel version
I1031 06:34:55.007833    7218 kernel_validator.go:96] Validating kernel config
[preflight/images] Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster
[preflight/images] This might take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection
[preflight/images] You can also perform this action in beforehand using 'kubeadm config images pull'
[preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
        [ERROR ImagePull]: failed to pull image [k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver-amd64:v1.11.1]: exit status 1
        [ERROR ImagePull]: failed to pull image [k8s.gcr.io/kube-controller-manager-amd64:v1.11.1]: exit status 1
        [ERROR ImagePull]: failed to pull image [k8s.gcr.io/kube-scheduler-amd64:v1.11.1]: exit status 1
        [ERROR ImagePull]: failed to pull image [k8s.gcr.io/kube-proxy-amd64:v1.11.1]: exit status 1
        [ERROR ImagePull]: failed to pull image [k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1]: exit status 1
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with `--ignore-preflight-errors=...`

What you expected to happen?

Images should be pulled

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=192.168.0.0/16 --kubernetes-version=v1.11.1

Anything else we need to know?

Also reproduced on latest (v1.12.2). Tried manually too:

[root@pink01 ~]# kubeadm config images pull
failed to pull image "k8s.gcr.io/kube-apiserver:v1.12.2": output: Error response from daemon: Get https://k8s.gcr.io/v2/kube-apiserver/manifests/v1.12.2: Get https://k8s.gcr.io/v2/token?scope=repository%3Akube-apiserver%3Apull&service=k8s.gcr.io: net/http: TLS handshake timeout
, error: exit status 1