toolset

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/

kubectl

the command line util to talk to your cluster.

kubeadm

the command to bootstrap the cluster.

Kind

kind lets you run Kubernetes on your local computer.

• This tool requires that you have either Docker or Podman installed.
• Kind is an acronym for Kubernetes in Docker

minikube

minikube is a tool that lets you run Kubernetes locally.

• minikube runs an all-in-one or a multi-node local Kubernetes cluster on your personal computer
• Like #kind but with less support in rootless Podman

kubelet

the component that runs on all of the machines in your cluster and does things like starting pods and containers.

• the systemd service