Getting started with KinD
Prerequisites
While it can be installed in various approaches as documented in KinD website, but this article will focus on Windows WSL2 based Linux and running KinD as a cluster there.
Please ensure that you have completed the Linux onboarding as documented here: Alpine on Windows WSL
Installing KinD
Step 1: Install Required Binaries Kind Install
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curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.17.0/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind
Step 2: Once step 1 is completed, your local k8s is a command away
kind create cluster
For more information you can also visit: https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/using-wsl2/