Kind

kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

Prerequisties

• WSL2
• Docker

Kind Install

# Install on Linux (WSL2 Ubuntu)
curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind

Useful scripts

gh repo clone dkirrane/kind
cd kind

Create local Kubernetes cluster

./kind-create.sh

Connect to Kubernetes cluster

# By default kind creates/updates $HOME/.kube/config
kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind

# Optionally you can output to seperate file $HOME/.kube/kind/config
./kind-kubeconfig.sh
export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/kind/config"
kubectl get nodes

Deploy an Ingress (Optional)

./kind-ingress.sh

Deploy an Application (Optional)

# Helm

Destroy Kubernetes cluster

./kind-delete.sh

WSL2 Docker cleanup

From time to time you may want to cleanup Docker containers, unused images, volumes and networks.

docker system prune --all

References:

• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/
• https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/using-wsl2/

Confluent

Deploy Confluent Kafka ./confluent/README.md