Kind Cluster

Kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".

Install Docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o install.sh

sh install.sh
rm -f install.sh
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Alias

echo 'alias k="kubectl"' >> ~/.bash_aliases

Auto completion

echo 'complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k' >> ~/.bashrc

kubectl version --client --output=yaml

For AMD64 / x86_64

[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.20.0/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind

kind --version

Multinode cluster

kind create cluster --config 1-config.multinode.yaml

Mapping http port

kind create cluster --config 2-config.portmap.yaml

Install for custom CNI

kind create cluster --config 3-config.cni.yaml

kind create cluster --name dev

kind create cluster --image kindest/node:<version@sha256> --name dev

Cluster info

kind get clusters

kubectl cluster-info
kubectl cluster-info --context kind-dev

kubectl get nodes

docker ps

kind delete cluster