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# [[kind]]
[site](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/); [repo](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/)
kind is a tool for [[Software Testing|testing]] [[Kubernetes]] (including multi-node clusters) that allows you to run Kubernetes clusters within [[Docker]] [[Containerization|containers]]. It includes:
- [[Go]] packages
- a [[CLI]] to interact with the packages
- [[Docker]] images to run [[systemd]], [[Kubernetes]], etc.
- [[kubetest]] integration
kind is also a [[CNCF]]-certified conformant [[Kubernetes]] installer.
## Usage via CLI
### Create cluster
```
kind create cluster
```
### Delete cluster
```
kind delete cluster
```