%% date:: [[2023-04-25]] parent:: %% # [[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 ```