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Kitematic vs Kind: What are the differences?

What is Kitematic? The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac. Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X.

What is Kind? Run local Kubernetes clusters using Docker. It is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes” It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI..

Kitematic and Kind belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Kitematic are:

  • Mac App with GUI for Docker
  • Create images from any folder with a Dockerfile in it
  • Configure environment variables

On the other hand, Kind provides the following key features:

  • Supports multi-node (including HA) clusters
  • Supports building Kubernetes release builds from source
  • Support for make / bash / docker, or bazel, in addition to pre-published builds

Kitematic is an open source tool with 11.4K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kitematic's open source repository on GitHub.

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      I like it because it sucks
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      No command line, Docker in one app, gui, easy to set up
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      Good for first timer
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    What is Kind?

    It is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. It was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

    What is Kitematic?

    Simple Docker App management for Mac OS X

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