You can push images into it, or use it as your docker/podman daemon, so the images are built directly in there, at least with minikube. This command does the trick for the current shell session:

  eval $(minikube docker-env)

You can run minikube image load image:tag to pull images from your container runtime: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/pushing/#7-loadin...

Not sure here but the local k8s setup included with docker desktop uses your local registry. The downside is you have to use docker desktop……