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. Go to Images from the left navigation pane.
2. Click the overflow menu icon corresponding to the image you want to push and select Push image to Lima cluster. A successful operation notification opens.
3. Click OK.

Verification

Lima enables you to list loaded images:

$ 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 values must consist of lowercase alphanumeric characters, '-', or '.', and must start and end with an alphanumeric character.
   • Container image value is the image you pushed. You can click the name of the image to check its name and tag.

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

2. Go to Pods from the left navigation pane.

3. Click Play Kubernetes YAML and provide the following details:

   • Kubernetes YAML file: select your verify_my_image.yaml file.
   • Set Runtime to Kubernetes cluster.

4. Click Play.

5. Click Done.

6. Go to Kubernetes > Pods, and view the created pod verify-my-image. The pod STATUS is RUNNING.