KiND - How I Wasted a Day Loading Local Docker Images

From time to time I use kind as a local Kubernetes playground. It's super-handy, real quick, and 100% disposable.

Up until recently, all the scenarios I've tested with kind were using public container images. However, a few days ago, I found myself in a situation where I needed to run a pod using an image that I had just built on my laptop.

One way of doing it would be pushing the image to a local or remote registry accessible from inside the kind Kubernetes cluster. However, kind still doesn't spin up a local registry out of the box (you can vote for the GitHub issue here) and I'm not a fan of sending stuff over the Internet without very good reasons.

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My 10 Years of Programming Experience

Regardless of whether it's the end of the calendar decade or not it's the end of a programming decade for me. I started early in 2010 and since then I've been programming almost every day, including weekends and vacations. This was a really exciting period in my life and I realized that it's been a while since 2010 only recently. So, I decided to put into words some of my learnings from that time. Warning: the content of this article is highly opinionated and extremely subjective.

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