Pushing an image to your local Kind-powered Kubernetes cluster

With Podman Desktop, you can push an image to your local Kind-powered Kubernetes cluster.

Prerequisites

• You onboarded a container engine.
• You onboarded a Kind cluster.
• You have set your Kubernetes context to your local Kind-powered Kubernetes cluster.
• Your image is available on the Images page: <my_image>:<my_tag>.

Procedure

1. Open Podman Desktop dashboard > Images.
2. Search images: <your_image>:<your_tag>.
3. Click > Push image to Kind cluster.
4. If you created many Kind clusters, select your Kind cluster from the list.

Verification

Kind does not enable you to list loaded images. Therefore, create a Pod that uses the loaded image.

1. Create a verify_my_image.yaml Kubernetes YAML file on your workstation. Replace the placeholders:

   • Pod name and container name value must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters, '-' or '.', and must start and end with an alphanumeric character.
   • Container image value is the image you pushed.

   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Pod
   metadata:
     name: <verify-my-image>
   spec:
     containers:
       - name: <my-image>
         image: <my_image>:<my_tag>
         imagePullPolicy: Never

2. Open Pods > Play Kubernetes YAML.

   1. Kubernetes YAML file: select your verify_my_image.yaml file.
   2. Select Runtime: Using a Kubernetes cluster.
   3. Click Play.
   4. Click Done

3. Open Pods.

4. Search pods: <verify-my-image>.

5. The pod Status is Running.