We are using minikube, podman

First step is to install podman

https://podman.io/docs/installation

Then install minikube

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/?arch=%2Fmacos%2Farm64%2Fstable%2Fbinary+download

Also install kubectl

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-macos/

After all things are installed, we can start minikube using podman as driver, minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=cri-o

We can check minikube pods under the namespace kube-system by running

kubectl get pods --namespace=kube-system

NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-66bc5c9577-pqxqm           1/1     Running   0          15m
etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0          15m
kindnet-k5z9k                      1/1     Running   0          15m
kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0          15m
kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0          15m
kube-proxy-z6sph                   1/1     Running   0          15m
kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0          15m
storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   0          15m

To run a single pod kubectl run nginx --image=nginx

kubectl describe pod nginx

kubectl get pods -o wide