Features Of Kind
Kind has five important features as a tool for running Kubernetes locally:
- Kind enables users to create multi-Node clusters.
- Kind also supports building Kubernetes release builds from source.
- Kind has support for make/bash or docker, in addition to pre-published builds.
- Kind supports Linux, macOS, and Windows and can be used across these Operating Systems with some minor differences.
- Kind is a CNCF-certified conformant Kubernetes installer.
How To Use Kind To Deploy Kubernetes Clusters?
Kind also referred to as Kubernetes in Docker is a popular open-source tool used for running a Kubernetes cluster locally. Kind uses Docker containers as Cluster Nodes making it substantially faster than its alternatives like Minikube or Docker Desktop which uses a Virtual Machine. Kind is commonly used to test Kubernetes clusters on local machines. Kind is useful specifically when the user wants to create a multi-Node cluster since Minikube or Docker Desktop does not provide any such functionality. In this article we will learn about KinD and see how to use KinD for Deploying Kubernetes clusters.
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