Introduction

These tutorials cover end-to-end tasks that you must perform to accomplish a goal while working with the Podman Desktop application. Each task is a procedure that contains a sequence of steps to follow.

Before going through each tutorial, familiarize yourself with the key UI components of the Podman Desktop application:

1. Left navigation pane: Helps in accessing the dashboard and managing containers, images, pods, volumes, Kubernetes resources, and extensions. You can apply different actions from each component page.

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   The Kubernetes explorer component appears in the navigation pane only if you have set up a Kubernetes cluster.

2. Accounts: Provides easy access to the Authentication settings. You can add an authentication provider using the Red Hat Authentication extension.

3. Settings: Helps you to:

   • Create resources for your development environment
   • Configure proxy URLs
   • Configure a registry for secure storage and distribution of containers and cloud-native artifacts
   • Configure an authentication provider
   • Configure a CLI tool
   • Configure a Kubernetes context
   • Configure the application appearance, extensions, the terminal size and line height, and the telemetry feature.

4. Status bar: Provides the following capabilities:

   • Configure a Docker-compatible environment
   • Set your kubernetes context
   • Share your feedback
   • Troubleshoot your container connections and view logs
   • View notifications and additional help resources

List of tutorials

• Running a pod using a container or docker file
• Running a Kubernetes cluster
• Deploying a Kubernetes application
• Interacting with a database server
• Managing your application resources
• Running an AI application