@jolly-forest-99711 So - what "worked" fairly quickly for me; from nerdctl I "saved" the image as a tar file (fast and local) / then I simply reloaded the tar file it into the
k8s.io "image namespace" using the "load" (from that tar file) image nerdctl command / after this was done / I was then able to issue the kubectl commands to create the pod and run the pod. I deleted the erroneous
k8.io "image namespace" easily from the Rancher Desktop UI. This was much faster than "rebuilding the image" from the Rancher Desktop UI into the correct "image namespace". The docs should specify and distinguish "image namespace" from "cluster namespace" each time - as this "image namespace" requirement of
k8s.io that Rancher Desktop has for nerdctl must use as NOT evident when "building" or "pulling" container images using the Rancher Desktop UI. The Rancher Desktop UI uses the default container image "tag" vs "
k8s.io" tag when building or pulling container images - and this process sometimes takes a long time. FYI