Great. I think everyone likes minikube in this case. I will raise a PR for 
removing kind. Thanks for the input.

Thanks,
Yong

On 2025/07/08 09:47:44 Alex Dutra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also have a preference for minikube – even if Kind has the ability of
> launching multi-node clusters, which minikube can't do.
> 
> Historically, Kind was used in one single place: the run.sh script at the
> root of the repo. I think it was chosen so that we can launch a local
> Docker registry (cf. the companion kind-registry.sh script) to upload
> Docker images for Polaris. But minikube has a much easier way of achieving
> that [1], so my take is that we don't need Kind at all at this point.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> [1]:
> https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/pushing/#1-pushing-directly-to-the-in-cluster-docker-daemon-docker-env
> 
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM Yufei Gu <flyrain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > +1 on picking one, instead of having both. I don't have any preference
> > though.
> >
> > Yufei
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <di...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > My personal preference is minikube.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dmitri.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM Yong Zheng <yzh...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Currently, we provide Kubernetes references for both Kind (
> > > > https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/) and Minikube (
> > > > https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/). In terms of tooling, Kind is very
> > > > lightweight, whereas Minikube is much more feature-rich and works out
> > of
> > > > the box. (Some workarounds or additional steps are required to make
> > Kind
> > > do
> > > > the same, but those details are out of scope for this discussion.)
> > > >
> > > > In terms of the features and documentation we offer to others, either
> > > > option will work. However, I think the overhead of maintaining support
> > > for
> > > > both tools is unnecessary. I don’t have a strong preference for which
> > one
> > > > we choose, but I believe it will be easier to support additional
> > > automation
> > > > if we stick to a single tool.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Yong Zheng
> > > >
> > >
> >
> 

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