Installing KinD

At the time of writing, the current version of KinD is 0.22.0, supporting Kubernetes clusters up to 1.30.x.

The files required to deploy KinD and all of the components for the cluster that we will use for the chapters are located in the repository, under the chapter2 folder. The script, create-cluster.sh, located in the root of the chapter2 directory, will execute all of the steps discussed in the remainder of the chapter. You do not need to execute the commands as you read the chapter; you are welcome to follow the steps, but before executing the install script in the repo, you must delete any KinD clusters that may have been deployed.

The deployment script contains in-line remarks to explain each step; however, we will explain each step of the installation process in the next section.

Installing KinD – prerequisites

There are multiple methods available for installing KinD, but the simplest and fastest approach to begin building KinD clusters...