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Documentation Playground Recipes

Playground Recipes

A collection of recipes for using playgrounds on iximiuz Labs.

Coding Agent with Browser Access

How to run Claude Code in a playground and let it drive your local Chrome via the Chrome DevTools MCP.

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Remote Docker Host

How to use a playground as a remote Docker host.

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Connect to a Playground Kubernetes Cluster

How to access a Kubernetes cluster running in a playground from your local machine using kubectl.

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Use Kubernetes MCP Server

How to use the Kubernetes MCP server with Claude Code to manage Kubernetes clusters running in playgrounds.

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Running VMs Inside Playground VMs (Nested Virtualization)

How to run virtual machines inside playground VMs using the Cloud Hypervisor backend with CPU virtualization support (VMX/SVM) and KVM.

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