KIND(1)

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version 0.31.0 · 4 versions
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🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, meet kind — it's literally Kubernetes IN Docker, aka local clusters for testing Kubernetes 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the whole vibe is: kind creates and manages local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container nodes 🦋 no cloud bills, no drama, just containers being nodes. iconic behaviour fr fr.

Usage

kind [command]

Available Commands

  • build — Build one of [node-image]
  • completion — Output shell completion code for the specified shell (bash, zsh or fish) 🐚
  • create — Creates one of [cluster]
  • delete — Deletes one of [cluster]
  • export — Exports one of [kubeconfig, logs]
  • get — Gets one of [clusters, nodes, kubeconfig]
  • help — Help about any command
  • load — Loads images into nodes
  • version — Prints the kind CLI version

Flags

  • -h, --help — help for kind 🫶
  • -q, --quiet — silence all stderr output 🤫
  • -v, --verbosity int32 — info log verbosity, higher value produces more output (yes, it's an int32, no cap)
  • --version — version for kind
need the tea on a specific command? use "kind [command] --help" for more information about a command 👑

that's the whole page bestie, go spin up a cluster, slay, and remember: local clusters, main character energy only 💖✨🎀🌈⭐👑🦋🌸💅

<any>kind 0.31.0</any> — April 2026 — KIND(1) 🕐 yeah that's the version, the date, and the manual section, all in one cute lil sign-off, periodt 💜

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