Deploying Kubernetes using kind

The next tool we are going to look at is Kind, which is short for Kubernetes in Docker. This is exactly what you think it would be, based on the name – a Kubernetes cluster node condensed down into a container. Kind is a very recent project – so recent, in fact, that at the time of writing it is still undergoing a lot of active development. Because of this, we aren't going to spend too much time on it.

Installing Kind

Like Minikube, Kind is distributed as a single static binary – meaning its installation is very similar.

To install it on macOS, we need to run the following:

$ brew install kind

On Windows, run this:

$ choco install kind

Finally, on Linux, you can run the following:

$ KIND_VER=v0.8.1
$ curl -LO https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/$KIND_VER/kind-$(uname)-
amd64
$sudo install kind-$(uname)-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kind

The release page to confirm the version number can be found at https://github.com...