Kindxt

Kindxt is a wrapper for Kind to easily install common applications on Kind. This is only for local environments and you need to consider some conventions for configurations.

When I was configuring Kind with some applications, I felt some pain to organize all applications that I needed, because Kind on windows asks us to configure the port maps between the host and container. It's easy to do if you have only one application and only need to do this once. I had to do this configuration in many situations and I was tired to do this. So I created this wrapper to do this configuration with the command line so that I don't have to worry about conflicts on the Kind node ports because the configuration will stay centralized and can be shared between projects.

Getting Started

1. Download the Kindxt from releases on github.
2. Put the executable on PATH environment variable.
3. Run kindxt --help to see all options.

Tools

• Kubernetes Version: v1.26.0
• Kind Version: 0.17.0
• Helm Version: 3.9.1
• Docker Api Version: 1.41

All options accepted

Options	Description	Host Port	NodePort	Username	Password
-c, --create-cluster	Delete the cluster and create a new one	-	-	-	-
--sqlserver	Install sqlserver chart on kind	localhost:1433	30000	sa	P@ssword123
--mongodb	Install mongodb chart on kind	localhost:27017	30008	desenv	P@ssword123
--postgres	Install postgres chart on kind	localhost:5432	30001	desenv	P@ssword123
--citus	Install citus chart with 2 nodes on kind	localhost:5433	30007	desenv	P@ssword123
--istio-ingress	Install istio-ingress chart on kind, this create the namespaces istio-ingress and istio-system	localhost:8081 http, localhost:8082 https, localhost:8083 status-port	30004, 30005, 30006	-	-
--pg-admin	Install pgadmin chart on kind	http://localhost:9000	30002	[email protected]	P@ssword123
--nginx-ingress	Install nginx-ingress chart on kind	http://localhost:8080	30003	-	-
--keda	Install Keda chart on kind, this creates the namespace keda	-	-	-	-
--redis	Install Redis chart on kind	localhost:6379	30011	-	P@ssword123
--rabbitmq	Install RabbitMQ chart on kind	http://localhost:5672 amqp, http://localhost:15672 manager	30009, 30010	desenv	P@ssword123
--version	Show version information	-	-	-	-
-?, -h, --help	Show help and usage information	-	-	-	-

And if I want reinstall some package?

Run the command without the --create-cluster parameter and the reinstall will happen.

How to add new chart?

1. Create a new folder inside the directory charts
2. Create a class that inherits IHelmChart and HelmChartBase
3. Implement the methods and create a config file with the default configurations
4. Create a port mapping in the class Ports. The number of the node port should be incremental
5. Update the readme with the parameters, default URL, user, and password if apply
6. Open a pull request

Roadmap

1. Log the ports opened in the install action
2. Version the package
3. Generate changelog.md
4. Generate a chocolatey package
5. Install Kafka