Create an ansible module/driver to create/delete or start/stop a kind cluster

[cmoulliard]

Proposition

The snowdrop team created an Ansible playbook to simplify the process and help users/developers when they play with with kind to create/delete a cluster with optionally a docker registry - https://github.com/snowdrop/k8s-infra/blob/master/ansible/roles/kind/README.adoc.

Remark : An Ingress role can also be used to top of the cluster created

As discussed with Fabian von Feilitzsh on Kind Slack, it could be interesting that we do different things such as :

• Donate the Ansible role created to the kind community

That we extend the work to either:

• Have a molecule driver that we could use to test playbooks/roles using Kind : https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#driver,
• Create an Ansible Module able to perform such a thing

  name: Create a K8s 1.17 cluster with a docker registry and ingress server
  kind:
    version: 0.17.2
    name: my-k8s-17
    image: 
    registry: docker
    routing: ingress
    nodes:
      - role: control-plane
      - role: worker
      - role: worker
      extraPortMappings:
        - containerPort: 80
          hostPort: 80
          listenAddress: "127.0.0.1"
          potocol: TCP
      extraMounts:
        - hostPath: /path/to/my/files/
          containerPath: /files
    networking:
      apiServerAddress: "127.0.0.1"
    state: present

WDYT ?

[BenTheElder]

I really appreciate you reaching out and your work on this 😄

I don't think we're prepared to maintain something like this in the kind repo, it should probably continue to live in another repo.
This seems a bit out of scope for the Kubernetes project, and most of the core maintainers are not ansible users.

Similarly, we do not host CI integration tooling in this repo, but instead under https://github.com/kind-ci/examples

I think we'd be happy to link out to a project like this from https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/resources/ (a page which could use more love as well..), which could help improve visibility for the project.

[BenTheElder]

spoke to other maintainers, closing for now.