Running Kubernetes with a GPU Inside WSL2 on My RTX Laptop

Published: 2026-04-22 I wanted a local environment where I could: run Kubernetes schedule GPU workloads experiment with CUDA / inference / device plugins avoid renting cloud GPUs I used a Lenovo Legion laptop with an RTX GPU. The working stack was: Windows 11 + NVIDIA driver (WSL-enabled) WSL2 (Ubuntu 24.04) K3s (containerd) NVIDIA Container Toolkit NVIDIA device plugin The non-obvious part was…