Please see Our Documentation for more in-depth installation etc.

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 installed

GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/[email protected] && kind create cluster

kind consists of: - Go packages implementing cluster creation, image build, etc. - A command line interface (

kind

kubetest

kind bootstraps each "node" with kubeadm. For more details see the design documentation.

NOTE: kind is still a work in progress, see the 1.0 roadmap.

Installation and usage

For a complete install guide see the documentation here.

You can install kind with

GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]

NOTE: please use the latest go to do this, ideally go 1.13 or greater.

NOTE:

go get

cd $HOME

This will put

kind

$(go env GOPATH)/bin

kind: command not found

$PATH

make build

Without installing go, kind can be built reproducibly with docker using

make build

Stable binaries are also available on the releases page. Stable releases are generally recommended for CI usage in particular. To install, download the binary for your platform from "Assets" and place this into your

$PATH

On Mac & Linux:

curl -Lo ./kind "https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.10.0/kind-$(uname)-amd64"
chmod +x ./kind
mv ./kind /some-dir-in-your-PATH/kind

On Mac via Homebrew:

brew install kind

On Windows:

curl.exe -Lo kind-windows-amd64.exe https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.10.0/kind-windows-amd64
Move-Item .\kind-windows-amd64.exe c:\some-dir-in-your-PATH\kind.exe

OR via Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/packages/kind)
choco install kind

To use kind, you will need to install docker.
Once you have docker running you can create a cluster with:

kind create cluster

To delete your cluster use:

kind delete cluster

To create a cluster from Kubernetes source: - ensure that Kubernetes is cloned in

$(go env GOPATH)/src/k8s.io/kubernetes

console
kind build node-image
kind create cluster --image kindest/node:latest

Multi-node clusters and other advanced features may be configured with a config file, for more usage see the docs or run

kind [command] --help

Community

Please reach out for bugs, feature requests, and other issues!
The maintainers of this project are reachable via:

• Kubernetes Slack in the #kind channel
• filing an issue against this repo
• The Kubernetes SIG-Testing Mailing List

Current maintainers are @BenTheElder, @munnerz, @aojea, and @amwat - feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Pull Requests are very welcome!
If you're planning a new feature, please file an issue to discuss first.

Check the issue tracker for

help wanted

See also: our own contributor guide and the Kubernetes community page.

Why kind?

• kind supports multi-node (including HA) clusters
• kind supports building Kubernetes release builds from source
  • support for make / bash / docker or bazel, in addition to pre-published builds
• kind supports Linux, macOS and Windows
• kind is a CNCF certified conformant Kubernetes installer

Code of conduct

Participation in the Kubernetes community is governed by the Kubernetes Code of Conduct.