kind

• Helps you run Kubernetes clusters locally and in CI pipelines using Docker containers as "nodes".

• CNCF certified Kubernetes installer

• kind website

• kind releases

Install: brew install kind

• Available k8s version images tags

Start cluster without ingress-nginx:

time kind create cluster --image=vkindest/node:1.22.4 --config=/home/varac/kubernetes/kind/cluster-config-ingress.yml
docker ps

Start cluster with ingress setup:

kind_ingress_create.sh

Delete cluster:

kind delete cluster

Kind addons

• cloud-provider-kind
  • Cloud provider for KIND clusters, including a gateway API setup out of the box