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Kubernetes Lab with Podman

Use this page for Podman-based local Kubernetes experiments where your environment supports it.

Suggested Flow

  1. Confirm Podman and kubectl are installed.
  2. Start the local cluster or lab environment.
  3. Deploy a small test workload with a pinned image tag.
  4. Validate networking, logs, and rollout behavior.
  5. Tear down the environment when finished.

Verification Commands

kubectl get nodes
kubectl get pods -A
kubectl describe pod <pod-name>
kubectl logs <pod-name>