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<p>These tutorials cover end-to-end tasks that you must perform to accomplish a goal while working with the Podman Desktop application. Each task is a procedure that contains a sequence of steps to follow.</p>
<p>Before going through each tutorial, get yourself familiarize with the key UI components of the Podman Desktop application:</p>
<p><strong>Left navigation pane</strong>: Helps in accessing the dashboard and managing containers, images, pods, volumes, Kubernetes resources, and extensions. You can apply different actions from each component page.</p>
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<p><strong>Accounts</strong>: Provides easy access to the <strong>Authentication</strong> settings. You can add an authentication provider using the <strong>Red Hat Authentication</strong> extension.</p>
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<p><strong>Settings</strong>: Helps you to:</p>
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<li>Create resources for your development environment</li>
<li>Configure proxy URLs</li>
<li>Configure a registry for secure storage and distribution of containers and cloud-native artifacts</li>
<li>Configure an authentication provider</li>
<li>Configure a CLI tool</li>
<li>Configure a Kubernetes context</li>
<li>Configure the application appearance, extensions, the terminal size and line height, and the telemetry feature.</li>
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<p><strong>Status bar</strong>: Provides the following capabilities:</p>
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<li>Configure a Docker-compatible environment</li>
<li>Set your kubernetes context</li>
<li>Share your feedback</li>
<li>Troubleshoot your container connections and view logs</li>
<li>View notifications and additional help resources</li>
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<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="list-of-tutorials">List of tutorials<ahref="#list-of-tutorials"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to List of tutorials"title="Direct link to List of tutorials"></a></h2>
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<li><ahref="/tutorial/running-a-pod-using-a-container-docker-file">Running a pod using a container or docker file</a></li>