I am installing kind on Mac OS, For other Operating Systems below is installation Guide

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/

|  ❭ brew install kind

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Following commands are supported by Kind

|  ❭ kind 

kind creates and manages local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container ‘nodes’

Usage:

  kind [command]

Available Commands:

  build       Build one of [node-image]

  completion  Output shell completion code for the specified shell (bash, zsh or fish)

  create      Creates one of [cluster]

  delete      Deletes one of [cluster]

  export      Exports one of [kubeconfig, logs]

  get         Gets one of [clusters, nodes, kubeconfig]

  help        Help about any command

  load        Loads images into nodes

  version     Prints the kind CLI version

Flags:

  -h, –help              help for kind

      –loglevel string   DEPRECATED: see -v instead

  -q, –quiet             silence all stderr output

  -v, –verbosity int32   info log verbosity

      –version           version for kind

Use “kind [command] –help” for more information about a command.

|  ❭ kind create cluster --name cluster1 --image kindest/node:v1.19.1
ERROR: failed to create cluster: failed to list clusters: command "docker ps -a --filter label=io.x-k8s.kind.cluster=cluster1 --format '{{.Names}}'" failed with error: exit status 1
Command Output: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Make sure your docker is running

|  ❭ kind create cluster --name cluster1 --image kindest/node:v1.19.1
Creating cluster "cluster1" ...
 ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.19.1) 🖼 
 ✓ Preparing nodes 📦  
 ✓ Writing configuration 📜 
 ✓ Starting control-plane 🕹️ 
 ✓ Installing CNI 🔌 
 ✓ Installing StorageClass 💾 
Set kubectl context to "kind-cluster1"
You can now use your cluster with:

kubectl cluster-info --context kind-cluster1

Have a question, bug, or feature request? Let us know! https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/#community 🙂

|  ❭ kind get clusters
cluster1


|  ❭ kubectl get nodes
NAME                     STATUS   ROLES    AGE    VERSION
cluster1-control-plane   Ready    master   110s   v1.19.1




|  ❭ kubectl get ns
NAME                 STATUS   AGE
default              Active   3m7s
kube-node-lease      Active   3m8s
kube-public          Active   3m8s
kube-system          Active   3m8s
local-path-storage   Active   3m4s


|  ❭ kubectl get all --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE            NAME                                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system          pod/coredns-f9fd979d6-5txmg                          1/1     Running   0          3m3s
kube-system          pod/coredns-f9fd979d6-br4hn                          1/1     Running   0          3m2s
kube-system          pod/etcd-cluster1-control-plane                      1/1     Running   0          3m13s
kube-system          pod/kindnet-wzwgc                                    1/1     Running   0          3m3s
kube-system          pod/kube-apiserver-cluster1-control-plane            1/1     Running   0          3m14s
kube-system          pod/kube-controller-manager-cluster1-control-plane   1/1     Running   0          3m14s
kube-system          pod/kube-proxy-sxmjt                                 1/1     Running   0          3m3s
kube-system          pod/kube-scheduler-cluster1-control-plane            1/1     Running   0          3m14s
local-path-storage   pod/local-path-provisioner-78776bfc44-b6z4p          1/1     Running   0          3m3s

NAMESPACE     NAME                 TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                  AGE
default       service/kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP                  3m21s
kube-system   service/kube-dns     ClusterIP   10.96.0.10   <none>        53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP   3m19s

NAMESPACE     NAME                        DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   NODE SELECTOR            AGE
kube-system   daemonset.apps/kindnet      1         1         1       1            1           <none>                   3m18s
kube-system   daemonset.apps/kube-proxy   1         1         1       1            1           kubernetes.io/os=linux   3m19s

NAMESPACE            NAME                                     READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
kube-system          deployment.apps/coredns                  2/2     2            2           3m19s
local-path-storage   deployment.apps/local-path-provisioner   1/1     1            1           3m18s

NAMESPACE            NAME                                                DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
kube-system          replicaset.apps/coredns-f9fd979d6                   2         2         2       3m3s
local-path-storage   replicaset.apps/local-path-provisioner-78776bfc44   1         1         1       3m3s

|  ❭ kubectl create ns test123
namespace/test123 created


|  ❭ kubectl get ns
NAME                 STATUS   AGE
default              Active   5m18s
kube-node-lease      Active   5m19s
kube-public          Active   5m19s
kube-system          Active   5m19s
local-path-storage   Active   5m15s
test123              Active   12s


|  ❭ kubectl apply -f deployments/deployment.yaml  -n test123
deployment.apps/example-deploy created


|  ❭ kubectl get all -n test123
NAME                                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/example-deploy-7765698dd7-9jmqn   1/1     Running   0          87s
pod/example-deploy-7765698dd7-rtfcl   1/1     Running   0          87s

NAME                             READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/example-deploy   2/2     2            2           87s

NAME                                        DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/example-deploy-7765698dd7   2         2         2       87s





All this cluster is setup on a docker image

|  ❭ docker images |grep kind
kindest/node                                         v1.19.1             37ddbc9063d2        9 months ago        1.33GB

|  ❭ docker ps

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                  COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                       NAMES

3fe3692950db        kindest/node:v1.19.1   “/usr/local/bin/entr…”   23 minutes ago      Up 23 minutes    

  127.0.0.1:53968->6443/tcp   cluster1-control-plane

|  ❭ kind delete clusters cluster1
Deleted clusters: ["cluster1"]

|  ❭ kind get clusters            

No kind clusters found.