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Huh, I thought kind was the spiritual successor to minikube (which I used fondly years ago). When should one reach for minikube over kind today?
by gkop 5y ago
Huh, I thought kind was the spiritual successor to minikube (which I used fondly years ago). When should one reach for minikube over kind today?
- rckrd 5y agokind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) still requires Docker, so its not a replacement for Docker Desktop (Windows/macOS). You'll need to run kind in minikube or kind in Docker Desktop.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI prefer Minikube over Kind, because Minikube supports a lot more options and features, and has integrated the same features as Kind. Kind has not had a new release for almost a year.
- moondev 5y agoThe kind binary is decoupled from the node images that make up your cluster. V1.23.3 published 3 days ago https://hub.docker.com/r/kindest/node/tags https://hub.docker.com/r/kindest/node/tags You can also provide any kubeadm config options you want, as kind bootstraps with upstream kubeadm
- mfer 5y agoFrom the kind readme[1]... > kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI. minikube was designed for those who want a local kubernetes environment for development. It didn't work well for testing Kubernetes itself which led to kind. They had two different, though slightly overlapping, goals. [1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
- jrockway 5y agominikube is good where you have to have a VM, which is development on Windows and OS X. Linux containers need Linux, much to the dismay of laptop buyers I guess. I personally don't bother. I use Windows but just have a pet Linux VM where I actually do work, and then use kind (with podman; Docker seems to be turning the screws and I'm getting out ahead of that).
- freetime2 5y agoWhat hypervisor do you use? Do you run graphical apps in the VM, and if so is there any noticeable lag?