I'm trying to create a pod with the following YAML, specifically on Google Cloud Platform:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: frontend
spec:
  replicas: 2
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: search
        tier: frontend
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: node
        image: gcr.io/google_appengine/nodejs
        resources:
          requests:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 100Mi
        env:
        - name: GET_HOSTS_FROM
          value: dns
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80

For some reason, I keep getting the status: CrashLoopBackOff

When I run kubectl logs, it shows the following:

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.21+
npm ERR! argv "/nodejs/bin/node" "/nodejs/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.9.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.10.8
npm ERR! path /app/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/package.json'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /app/npm-debug.log

I searched around and found suggestions of running

npm install -g npm-autoinit

I'm not sure how to do that when I'm just pulling the image. I'm fairly new to Docker and Kubernetes so any help would be greatly appreciated!