I like KinD, but find k3s much faster to bootstrap and lighter-weight too. Rancher have gone GA with it and provide commercial support, Darren Shepherd also tra

I like KinD, but find k3s much faster to bootstrap and lighter-weight too. Rancher have gone GA with it and provide commercial support, Darren Shepherd also tracks the latest k8s release very closely. Linux -> k3s (build a cluster or single node via https://k3sup.dev https://k3sup.dev) MacOS/Windows -> k3s (runs k3s in a Docker container, and is super fast) That said, if you're hacking on K8s code, then KinD has nice features to support that workflow. KinD is only suitable for dev, k3s can run in prod also, try both, compare. They are both easy to use.