Kind cheat sheet

Kind cheatsheet featuring all the necessary commands required to deploy a kubernetes cluster through Kind.

Create a cluster

kind create cluster

Use a custom name for the cluster

kind create cluster --name=clusterName

Create a cluster with a custom node image

kind create cluster --image=image

Use a custom configuration for the cluster

kind create cluster --config=cluster.yaml

When creating a cluster, assign a waiting time for the control plane to go up

kind create cluster --wait <timeInterval>

View the list of the running clusters

kind get clusters

View information about a cluster

kubectl cluster-info --context kind-clusterName

Export logs

kind export logs

Delete a cluster

kind delete cluster --name clusterName

ABBR

abbr "kicc"="kind create cluster"
abbr "kiccn"="kind create cluster --name %"
abbr "kiccc"="kind create cluster --config %"
abbr "kigc"="kind get clusters"
abbr "kign"="kind get nodes"
abbr "kidc"="kind delete cluster"
abbr "kidcn"="kind delete cluster --name %"
abbr "kidca"="kind delete clusters -A"
abbr "kigk"="kind get kubeconfig"