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Gigi Sayfan

Comparing Minikube, KinD, and k3d

Minikube is the official local Kubernetes release. It is part of Kubernetes; it's very mature and very full featured. That said, it requires a VM and is both slow to install and to start. It can also get into trouble with networking at arbitrary times and sometimes the only remedy is deleting the cluster and rebooting. Also, Minikube supports a single node only. I suggest using Minikube only if it supports some feature that you need that is not available in either KinD or k3d.

KinD is much faster than Minikube and is used for Kubernetes conformance tests, so by definition, it is a conformant Kubernetes distribution. It is the only local cluster solution that provides HA clusters with multiple control-plane nodes. It is also designed to be used as a library, which I don't find as a big attraction because it is very easy to automate CLIs from code. The main downside of KinD for local development is that it is ephemeral. I recommend using KinD if you contribute to Kubernetes itself and want to test against it.

k3d is the clear winner for me. It's lightning fast, supports multiple clusters, and supports multiple worker nodes per cluster. It's also easy to stop and start clusters without losing state.

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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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