Kind

kind is the canonical way to evaluate Supernode locally.

Use it when you want the shortest path from zero to a working Supernode environment on a laptop.

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop, or another local container runtime
• ability to install CLI tools into /usr/local/bin

The bootstrap flow installs missing local dependencies such as kind, kubectl, and helm.

Canonical flow

cd bootstrap
./bootstrap.sh \
  --provider kind \
  --version 0.2.1 \
  --config ./kind/config.yml

If you do not provide --values, the bootstrap flow uses bootstrap/kind/values.yml.

Those defaults are opinionated for local evaluation and expose the dashboard and Grafana through NodePort so they can be reached through the port mappings defined in the Kind cluster config.

Local Vault dev mode

The shortest Vault path on Kind is dev mode:

cd bootstrap
./bootstrap.sh \
  --provider kind \
  --version 0.2.1 \
  --values ../extensions/control-plane/examples/dev-values.yaml

That keeps Vault Secrets Operator enabled while avoiding the init and unseal flow.

Then finish the shared VSO setup:

cd ../extensions/control-plane
VAULT_TOKEN=root ./scripts/post_install.sh

Validate the cluster

kubectl config current-context
kubectl -n control-plane get pods
kubectl -n control-plane get svc

Access the local services

By default the Kind values switch these services to NodePort:

• Grafana
• Supernode dashboard

If you use the shipped Kind config, they are exposed through the host port mappings defined for the cluster.

When to use Kind

Choose Kind when you want to:

• validate control-plane installation logic
• exercise the dashboard locally
• test extension values before a cloud rollout
• rehearse Vault and VSO flows without provisioning cloud infrastructure