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

With recent versions of Kind, the crictl command can be used - e.g., podman exec -it kind-cluster-control-plane crictl images. The name of the control plane container may vary, so you can use a filter to query for the container:

podman exec -it $(podman ps --filter "label=io.x-k8s.kind.role=control-plane" --format {{.Names}}) crictl images

See the Kind Quickstart for details.