Actually you can! After you run "k7 install" you'll have a k3s cluster up and running, with Kata as a runtime class, and Firecracker specified in Kata config. So nothing prevents you from hitting the Kubernetes API! kubectl will work.

Note: I use k3s' internal kubectl and containerd, to avoid messing with your own if you have some already installed. That means you can run commands like "k3s kubectl ..."

And thank you for the compliments on the stack.