From 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

From 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