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<p>The <ahref="https://developers.redhat.com/developer-sandbox"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Developer Sandbox</a> is a free, private OpenShift environment including one project and a resource quota of 14 GB RAM, and 40 GB storage.
It lasts 30 days.</p>
<p>With Podman Desktop, you can configure access to your Developer Sandbox instances.</p>
<h4class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="prerequisites">Prerequisites<ahref="#prerequisites"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Prerequisites"title="Direct link to Prerequisites"></a></h4>
<ul>
<li><ahref="https://developers.redhat.com/register"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Register a Red Hat account</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="procedure">Procedure<ahref="#procedure"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Procedure"title="Direct link to Procedure"></a></h4>
<li>In the <strong>Developer Sandbox</strong> tile, click <strong>Create new</strong>.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Create a Developer Sandbox</strong> screen, click <strong>Log into Developer Sandbox</strong>.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Open external website</strong> dialog, click <strong>Yes</strong>.</li>
<li>In the <ahref="https://developers.redhat.com/developer-sandbox"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Developer Sandbox website</a>:<!---->
<ol>
<li>Click <strong>Start your sandbox for free</strong></li>
<li>If you never used this service, you might get through a verification workflow.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Login with...</strong> screen, click <strong>DevSandbox</strong>.</li>
<li>In your Developer Sandbox Console, click on <strong>your login name > Copy login command</strong> from the menu.</li>
<li>In the <strong>Login with...</strong> screen, click <strong>DevSandbox</strong>.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Display Token</strong>.</li>
<li>Copy the <strong>Log in with this token</strong> full login command, similar to: <code>oc login --token=sha256~<token> --server=https://api.sandbox-m2.<sandbox_id>.openshiftapps.com:6443</code>.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Get back to Podman Desktop <strong>Create a Developer Sandbox</strong> screen.<!---->
<ol>
<li><strong>Context name</strong>: Enter a name such as <code>Developer Sandbox</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Login command</strong>: Paste the <code>oc login</code> command that you copied previously.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>The <strong>Creation</strong> screen displays <em>Successful operation</em>. Click <strong>Go back to Resources</strong>.</li>
</ol>
<h4class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="verification">Verification<ahref="#verification"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Verification"title="Direct link to Verification"></a></h4>
<p><imgloading="lazy"alt="Developer Sandbox is running"src="/assets/images/resources-developer-sandbox-running-435054109642f996529ce6a133f1893e.png"width="510"height="211"class="img_SS3x"></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><ahref="/docs/kubernetes/viewing-and-selecting-current-kubernete-context">Select your Developer Sandbox in the Podman Desktop tray</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Run basic tasks such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><ahref="/docs/kubernetes/deploying-a-container-to-kubernetes">Deploying a container</a></li>
<li><ahref="/docs/kubernetes/deploying-a-pod-to-kubernetes">Deploying a pod</a></li>
