Creating a Kubernetes Cluster using kind

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

kubectl is the Kubernetes command-line tool that allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. You can use kubectl to deploy applications, inspect and manage cluster resources, and view logs.

kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker containers. It can create a Kubernetes cluster within minutes.

Installing kubectl on Linux

• Execute these commands to install kubectl

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl.sha256"
echo "$(<kubectl.sha256)  kubectl" | sha256sum --check
sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

• Check if kubectl is installed

kubectl version --client

Installing Docker

• Install docker.io using ‘apt’

sudo apt install docker.io
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

• Check if docker is installed

docker

Installing kind

• Install kind, after docker has been installed

curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.11.1/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/games/kind

• Check if kind is installed

kind

• To create a cluster using kind

kind create cluster --name <cluster_name>

• To view the clusters created

kind get clusters

Thus, you have created a Kubernetes Cluster using kind !