day-to-day commands in minikube and KinD

 Minikube

docker context use default

docker context ls

minikube start 

minikube start --nodes 3

minikube start --driver=<driver name>   e.g. "docker" , "virtualbox" 

minikube config set driver <driver_name>

minikube profile list

minikube status

minikube delete --all --purge

minikube node add

kubectl get nodes

minikube node delete minikube-m02

kubectl get pods    <= get user created pods

kubectl get pods -n kube-system   <= get system created pods

//GET network pluggin

kubectl get pods -n kube-system | grep -E "net|cni|flannel|calico|cilium|kube-router|kindnet"

kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='{.items[*].status.images[*].name}' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -E "cni|kindnet|calico|flannel|cilium" | sort -u

minikube ssh "ls /etc/cni/net.d/"

If it returns 10-kindnet.conflist, your network plugin is Kindnet. (kindnet is default for minikube)

If it returns 10-calico.conflist or k8s.d/, it will list the respective active plugin.

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KinD

kind --version

kind get clusters

kind create cluster