Dive into the world of containers and Kubernetes with Podman Desktop, an open-source tool to empower your container development workflow, and seamlessly deploy applications to local and remote Kubernetes environments. Podman Desktop provides an intuitive interface compatible with container engines such as Podman, Docker, Lima, and more for developers, operations, and those looking to simplify building and deploying containers. With an interactive live demo showing how to move from containers to Pods, to Kubernetes (all from your local machine), you’ll learn best practices in developing and deploying cloud-native applications. In addition, we’ll introduce the path to infusing your applications with Generative AI using the Podman AI Lab, to serve and inference open-source LLMs such as LLaMA & Mistral for quickly building and prototyping AI-enabled applications. Join us to learn how you can seamlessly adopt containers and ensure predictability in deployments on Kubernetes, through local clusters (with Kind and Minikube) and by leveraging Podman Desktop’s features and security advantages!