What does HackerNews think of kind?

The nodes here are fake, they won't actually run your software. For CI/CD clusters I would recommend kind (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind).

From the kind readme[1]...

> kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

minikube was designed for those who want a local kubernetes environment for development. It didn't work well for testing Kubernetes itself which led to kind. They had two different, though slightly overlapping, goals.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

Not quite fake: but this might be close enough? https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

Alternatively you could create a CRI plugin that does what you want. https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/242a97307b3407...

You can!

KinD[0] is a project to do just that, although production workloads are an explicit non-goal.

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind

“kind” is a example in my day to day, how do I run an ephemeral kube cluster in ci to deploy and test my app against without dind/kind? I want N clusters running on 1 host to support many CI jobs.

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind https://github.com/bsycorp/kind

I've not tried it but I don't think minikube would work inside WSL as it needs a VM layer (I suppose technically it could with nested virtualization).

TBH for throwaway Kubernetes cluster in WSL, I'd recommend kind (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind) it works just fine with WSL/Docker for Windows.