Pushing an image to your local Lima-powered Kubernetes cluster

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

Prerequisites

• You onboarded a container engine.
• You onboarded a Lima cluster.
• You have set your Kubernetes context to your local Lima-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 Lima cluster.

Verification

Lima enables you to list loaded images, using:

$ LIMA_INSTANCE=<name> lima sudo crictl images

You can also 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.