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This is a known open issue on Windows: `kind` cluster creation fails with WSL2 · Issue #5604
You can use
k3d
instead (from k3d.io):
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C:\Users\SUSE>k3d cluster create demo --agents 3
INFO[0000] Prep: Network
INFO[0000] Created network 'k3d-demo'
INFO[0000] Created image volume k3d-demo-images
INFO[0000] Starting new tools node...
INFO[0000] Starting node 'k3d-demo-tools'
INFO[0001] Creating node 'k3d-demo-server-0'
INFO[0001] Creating node 'k3d-demo-agent-0'
INFO[0001] Creating node 'k3d-demo-agent-1'
INFO[0001] Creating node 'k3d-demo-agent-2'
INFO[0001] Creating LoadBalancer 'k3d-demo-serverlb'
INFO[0001] Using the k3d-tools node to gather environment information
INFO[0001] HostIP: using network gateway 172.20.0.1 address
INFO[0001] Starting cluster 'demo'
INFO[0001] Starting servers...
INFO[0001] Starting node 'k3d-demo-server-0'
INFO[0006] Starting agents...
INFO[0006] Starting node 'k3d-demo-agent-2'
INFO[0006] Starting node 'k3d-demo-agent-0'
INFO[0006] Starting node 'k3d-demo-agent-1'
INFO[0011] Starting helpers...
INFO[0011] Starting node 'k3d-demo-serverlb'
INFO[0018] Injecting records for hostAliases (incl. host.k3d.internal) and for 5 network members into CoreDNS configmap...
INFO[0020] Cluster 'demo' created successfully!
INFO[0020] You can now use it like this:
                            kubectl cluster-info

C:\Users\SUSE>kubectl get nodes
NAME                STATUS   ROLES                  AGE   VERSION
k3d-demo-agent-0    Ready    <none>                 73s   v1.29.6+k3s1
k3d-demo-agent-1    Ready    <none>                 74s   v1.29.6+k3s1
k3d-demo-agent-2    Ready    <none>                 72s   v1.29.6+k3s1
k3d-demo-server-0   Ready    control-plane,master   77s   v1.29.6+k3s1
w
yes, thank you But is there a way to use kind ?
f
You can use
kind
with Rancher Desktop on macOS and Linux. On Windows it doesn't seem to work (as you have noticed) for so far unknown reasons. Is there anything you require from
kind
that can't be done with
k3d
?