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I used minikube for a long time, it's pretty good but I found kind to be a lot nicer of an experience and eventually switched. https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ https:

I used minikube for a long time, it's pretty good but I found kind to be a lot nicer of an experience and eventually switched. https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

spockz 4y ago
I can second this. Kind seems so much nicer. With minikube I was somehow constantly messing with virtualisation frameworks. Kind just works.
- thinkmassive 4y ago
  Agree, Minikibe occupies a strange middle ground of being ephemeral but heavyweight. It’s slow enough to make it seem worth maintaining the same cluster over time, but that was a bad approach when I tried it. Kind is very clearly ephemeral, and it starts up quickly enough that it’s not annoying to deal with frequent restarts while developing setup scripts.
  - qbasic_forever 4y ago
    I just wish kind had a similar addon ecosystem as minikube. I'm sure if it gets popular enough then it will spawn stuff like that too though. The one thing that keeps me using minikube is the ease of spinning up an ingress, internal registry, etc. that usually just works.
outime 4y ago
Yep, kind is IMHO the way to go for most of the use cases. Really fast to set up new clusters and low resource consumption due to its nature.
- snapdaddy 4y ago
  Have you tried using k3s? How do the two compare?
nimbius 4y ago
not a bad tool but you get ~90% of the same functionality with podman, it doesnt need to run as root, and it supports user scoped service definitions and control in systemd.
- thinkmassive 4y ago
  You can use kind with podman, and also rootless https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/rootless/ https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/rootless/
- pitacracker 4y ago
  You’re comparing apples and oranges.
raesene9 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of KinD for development and testing clusters. It's also relatively easy to customize cluster configuration or node image, so you can create clusters for custom scenarios.

I used minikube for a long time, it's pretty good but I found kind to be a lot nicer of an experience and eventually switched. https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

spockz 4y ago

I can second this. Kind seems so much nicer. With minikube I was somehow constantly messing with virtualisation frameworks. Kind just works.

thinkmassive 4y ago
Agree, Minikibe occupies a strange middle ground of being ephemeral but heavyweight. It’s slow enough to make it seem worth maintaining the same cluster over time, but that was a bad approach when I tried it. Kind is very clearly ephemeral, and it starts up quickly enough that it’s not annoying to deal with frequent restarts while developing setup scripts.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  I just wish kind had a similar addon ecosystem as minikube. I'm sure if it gets popular enough then it will spawn stuff like that too though. The one thing that keeps me using minikube is the ease of spinning up an ingress, internal registry, etc. that usually just works.

outime 4y ago

Yep, kind is IMHO the way to go for most of the use cases. Really fast to set up new clusters and low resource consumption due to its nature.

snapdaddy 4y ago
Have you tried using k3s? How do the two compare?

nimbius 4y ago

not a bad tool but you get ~90% of the same functionality with podman, it doesnt need to run as root, and it supports user scoped service definitions and control in systemd.

thinkmassive 4y ago
You can use kind with podman, and also rootless https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/rootless/ https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/rootless/
pitacracker 4y ago
You’re comparing apples and oranges.

raesene9 4y ago

I'm a huge fan of KinD for development and testing clusters. It's also relatively easy to customize cluster configuration or node image, so you can create clusters for custom scenarios.