Testing your K8s apps with KIND - Benjamin Elder, Google & James Munnelly, Jetstack.io

Benjamin Elder and James Munnelly explain how to use KIND to run local, multi-node Kubernetes clusters for testing.

Join us for Kubernetes Forums Seoul, Sydney, Bengaluru and Delhi - learn more at kubecon.io Don't miss KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 events in Amsterdam March 30 - April 2, Shanghai July 28-30 and Boston November 17-20! Learn more at kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects Testing your K8s apps with KIND - Benjamin Elder, Google & James Munnelly, Jetstack.io Part of the promise of Docker is being able to run tests in the same environment as production. For applications running on Kubernetes, though, development and testing is still a challenge. Developers of these applications have to choose between three poor options: an external, stateful cluster, spinning up a cluster for each test, or running tests outside of Kubernetes. All of these have significant drawbacks that hinder the acceptance of Kubernetes in new environments. kind presents a fourth option: a small, compliant Kubernetes that comes up in one minute, not twenty. Using kind, CI signal can be more reliable, integration tests faster, and local development streamlined. sched.co/MPYy