280  kind(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

280.1 kind

kind - kind — Kubernetes IN Docker, local clusters for testing.

Layer OPS
Category o-02-compute-serving-infrastructure
Safety class safe
Licence Apache-2.0
Upstream github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

280.1.1 NAME

kind - kind — Kubernetes IN Docker, local clusters for testing.

280.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

# For AMD64 / x86_64
[ $(uname -m) = x86_64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.33.0/kind-$(uname)-amd64
# For ARM64
[ $(uname -m) = aarch64 ] && curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.33.0/kind-$(uname)-arm64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind
brew install kind

280.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI. If you have [go] and [docker], [podman] or [nerdctl] installed go install sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.33.0 && kind create cluster is all you need! kind consists of: - Go [packages][packages] implementing [cluster creation][cluster package], [image build][build package], etc. - A command line interface ([kind][kind cli]) built on these packages. - Docker [image(s)][images] written to run systemd, Kubernetes, etc. - [kubetest][kubetest] integration also built on these packages (WIP) kind bootstraps each “node”

280.1.4 SEE ALSO

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