Installing kubernetes kind cluster

Installing kind

You can install kind in MacOS, Linux or in Windows

Linux

# For AMD64 / x86_64
[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.20.0/kind-linux-amd64
# For ARM64
[ $(uname -m) = aarch64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.20.0/kind-linux-arm64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind

MacOS

brew install kind

Creating a kind cluster

To create a simple cluster, you need either Podman or Docker installed. Kind, by default, uses Docker. To install docker, you can follow the tutorial here.

kind create cluster

The following command will show containers with kindest/node image running:

docker ps