Assigned PublicIP is returning "The server is taking too long to respond."

Problem encountered on https://dotnet.microsoft.com/learn/aspnet/deploy-microservice-tutorial/deploy
Operating System: windows

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Hello, I went through the weatherforecast tutorial found on your Deploy a .Net Microservice page. I do the "kubectl get service mymicroservice --watch" command as instructed and I get back the Public IP address. the issue is that when I try to connect that Public IP I always get a timeout saying "The server is taking too long to respond." I have tried this twice and keep running into the same problem when I deploy my project. It is the standard WeatherForecast demo project, so it is not a complex solution at all. Any idea of why my publicIP would keep returning that?

UPDATE: Also, as an update my deploy PODS have status "Waiting" with a reason of "ImagePullBackOff"

Thanks for any help.