Skaffold & local docker daemon registry mirror

Expected behavior

• Skaffold should build images without hitting docker pull rate limits.

Actual behavior

• servicename: Error checking cache. getting hash for artifact "servicename": getting dependencies for "servicename": parsing ONBUILD instructions: retrieving image "php:8.0-apache": GET https://index.docker.io/v2/library/php/manifests/8.0-apache: TOOMANYREQUESTS: You have reached your pull rate limit. You may increase the limit by authenticating and upgrading: https://www.docker.com/increase-rate-limit

Information

• Skaffold version: v1.35.2
• Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04
• Installed via: --> direct install via website ( For Linux x86_64 (amd64) )
• Output of skaffold config list: -- kube-context: [my AWS EKS cluster] -- default-repo: [my private docker repo] -- local-cluster: false
• Contents of skaffold.yaml:

<paste your skaffold.yaml here>
# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
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apiVersion: skaffold/v2beta26
kind: Config
build:
  local:
    concurrency: 8
    tryImportMissing: true

  artifacts:
    # image tags are relative; to specify an image repo (e.g. GCR), you
    # must provide a "default repo" using one of the methods described
    # here:
    # https://skaffold.dev/docs/concepts/#image-repository-handling
    - image: servicename
      context: src/servicename
 
  tagPolicy:
    gitCommit: {}
deploy:
  kubectl:
    manifests:
      - ./kubernetes-manifests/**.yaml

Steps to reproduce the behavior

• In my local docker daemon, I have defined a registry mirror.
• Skaffold fails to build the application as it cannot pull "python:3.7-slim" or other images.
• However if I run docker pull python:3.7-slim, it uses my registry mirror and pulls it from there.
• My skaffold is configured to use the local docker daemon. Why is this error appearing with skaffold when docker pull, pulls the image successfully?
• Does skaffold ignore the docker daemon settings or is it trying to build on my EKS cluster?