Are you building custom docker images as part of your local development? I'm curious if you've found a good way to push locally built images into the cluster since it doesn't provide a private registry server.

If you want to avoid the VM I find minikube with --vm-driver=none works quite well.

Do you you know if persistent disk support has improved? I'd love to migrate over from minikube / microk8s, but that was the largest blocker for me last time I looked.

Why would minukube need a VM??