Creating a local Kind-powered Kubernetes cluster

You can create multiple local Kind-powered Kubernetes clusters.

Prerequisites

• You installed Kind.
• On Windows, you configured Podman.

Procedure

1. Go to Settings > Resources

2. In the Kind tile, click on the Create new ... button.

3. Choose your options, and click the Create button.

   The defaults are:

   • Name: kind-cluster
   • Provider type: podman
   • HTTP port: 9090
   • HTTPS port: 9443

4. (Optionally) Click the Show logs button to display the logs.

5. After successful creation, click on the Go back to resources button

Verification

1. In Settings > Resources, in the Kind tile, your <kind-cluster> instance is running.
2. In the Podman Desktop tray, open the Kubernetes menu, you can set the context to your Kind cluster: kind-<kind-cluster>.