kind

You may wonder what the heck is helmfile ? Well, I would say what is docker-compose to Docker, this is helmfile to Helm . Basically, it allows us to install the whole stack of applications to our Kubernetes cluster in a declarative way. And you may also wonder why is cert-manager so special? I would say cert-manager itself is not that special Helm chart, but it contains CRD ’s which may be installed either by using value installCRDs=true or by installing them using kubectl apply before you install the chart....

Few months ago I wrote an article about replacing Minikube with MicroK8s , but now we have even better soluion, kind . Like dind allows running Docker inside Docker containers, kind allows running Kubernetes inside Docker containers. kind basically abstracts nodes as Docker containers and then runs Kubernetes inside. After you install Golang , it is quite easy to install and setup kind: 1 2 GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.5.1 kind create cluster After some 30 seconds your single node cluster will be ready for development and testing....