Should it be possible to load a custom docker image into the cluster?

[mkonecny-atlassian]

Hi
I am trying to understand whether it should be possible to load a custom docker image, created via eg maven build, into the configured testcontainer running the Kind/K3s cluster. My Deployment fails as the custom image isn't present, and normally I would do kind load docker-image <myimage> but that is not possible here...

[cmoulliard]

kind load docker-image

Such a command, which is executed post creation of a cluster, on an existing cluster will create a tarball of an image and upload it within the container running kindnet as this is where the internal CRI engine is running

root@dummy-control-plane:/# crictl images
IMAGE                                                TAG                  IMAGE ID            SIZE
docker.io/gitea/gitea                                1.22.0-rootless      af01371cf5692       65.7MB
docker.io/kindest/kindnetd                           v20240813-c6f155d6   6a23fa8fd2b78       33.3MB
docker.io/kindest/local-path-helper                  v20230510-486859a6   d022557af8b63       2.92MB
docker.io/kindest/local-path-provisioner             v20240813-c6f155d6   282f619d10d4d       17.4MB
docker.io/library/redis                              7.0.14-alpine        6b735fc40976a       13.5MB
quay.io/argoproj/argocd                              v2.10.7              689f27f16d7be       163MB
registry.k8s.io/coredns/coredns                      v1.11.1              2437cf7621777       16.5MB
registry.k8s.io/etcd                                 3.5.12-0             014faa467e297       66.2MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver-arm64                 v1.30.3              841e6c258674c       86.7MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-apiserver                       v1.30.3              841e6c258674c       86.7MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager-arm64        v1.30.3              e1128ddcf1cb4       81MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-controller-manager              v1.30.3              e1128ddcf1cb4       81MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy-arm64                     v1.30.3              4e936f1cdc7bf       89.2MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-proxy                           v1.30.3              4e936f1cdc7bf       89.2MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler-arm64                 v1.30.3              cbb8ccc1f83d2       61.6MB
registry.k8s.io/kube-scheduler                       v1.30.3              cbb8ccc1f83d2       61.6MB
registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/kube-webhook-certgen   <none>               420193b27261a       22.1MB
registry.k8s.io/pause                                3.10                 afb61768ce381       268kB

This is technically doable to implement that but I don't think that this is the purpose of this project.

WDYT ? @dajudge