Why Sometimes I just need to quickly test a K8s resource or compare a cluster with a near vanilla version. This is where kind comes in handy, as it can create a clean and fresh Kubernetes cluster in under 2 minutes. Requirements You have a working docker environment. Step 1 Download the kind binary (less than 4 MB). curl -Lso ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.11.0/kind-linux-amd64 && chmod 755 kind Step 2 Create the actual cluster. $ time ./kind create cluster Creating cluster "kind" ... ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.21.1) ✓ Preparing nodes ✓ Writing configuration ✓ Starting control-plane ✓ Installing CNI ✓ Installing StorageClass Set kubectl context to "kind-kind" You can now use your cluster with: kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind Have a question, bug, or feature request? Let us know! https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/#community real 1m55.934s user 0m1.014s sys 0m0.970s Step ...
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