kind, Checked Against The Published Checksums

kind on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one in the per-asset .sha256sum kind publishes, and re-checked with sha256sum -c by the live test. kind needs a container runtime it does not bring (podman on EL 10); kind get clusters with none stops at 'failed to list clusters'. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.

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Verification

Live-tested

Really deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.

Conformance

  • Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)

Provenance

  • SHA-256 checksum
  • Signature (pending)

Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify

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kind

Kubernetes SIGs kind on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no kind, and a third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the release from github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on disk against the same published value again.

Pinned. kind_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is changed=0.

Proven to run. The live test runs kind get clusters and expects "failed to list clusters" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it needed something this host does not have.

Needs a container runtime it does not bring. kind runs Kubernetes nodes as containers through Docker, Podman or nerdctl; this role installs the kind binary only. On EL 10 dnf install podman and KIND_EXPERIMENTAL_PROVIDER=podman is the usual pairing. kind get clusters on a host with no runtime stops at "failed to list clusters" with the runtime it looked for, the live test's proof that the binary ran to the point of asking for one.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.

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