Starting local Kubernetes using kind

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In this article, I will show you how to run a cluster in single Docker container using kind.

What is kind?

Kind (Kubernetes IN Docker) is a tool to start kubernetes nodes as a docker container. It is a cross-platform tool you can run with Docker for Windows too.

Install kind binary

wget https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases/latest/download/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x kind-linux-amd64
sudo mv kind-linux-amd64 /usr/local/sbin/kind

Start a cluster for Ingress

cat <<EOF | kind create cluster --config=-
kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  kubeadmConfigPatches:
  - |
    apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta2
    kind: InitConfiguration
    nodeRegistration:
      kubeletExtraArgs:
        node-labels: "ingress-ready=true"
        authorization-mode: "AlwaysAllow"
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 80
    hostPort: 80
  - containerPort: 443
    hostPort: 443
EOF

Install ingress

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/master/deploy/static/mandatory.yaml

# patch ingress for kind
kubectl patch deployments -n ingress-nginx nginx-ingress-controller -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"nginx-ingress-controller","ports":[{"containerPort":80,"hostPort":80},{"containerPort":443,"hostPort":443}]}],"nodeSelector":{"ingress-ready":"true"}}}}}'

Demo

kubectl apply -f https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/examples/ingress/usage.yaml

curl localhost/foo