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Managing Local Kubernetes Clusters using Kubernetes in Docker (kind)

kind is a tool that we use to quickly create local development Kubernetes cluster.

Configuration​

Here's a sample configuration to

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
name: kgal-localhost-prod-legacy
networking:
  apiServerAddress: "127.0.0.1"
  apiServerPort: 6443

nodes:
- role: control-plane
  
extraPortMappings:
- containerPort: 30000
  hostPort: 8000
  protocol: TCP
- containerPort: 30080
  hostPort: 8080
  protocol: TCP
- containerPort: 30081
  hostPort: 8081
  protocol: TCP
- containerPort: 30088
  hostPort: 18888
  protocol: TCP

Create Cluster​

kind create cluster \
--config config.yaml \
--kubeconfig .kubeconfig