Find where kind is coming from

[dboreham]

We depend on kind for the k8s tests which are run in CI. But I can't see where we ever actually install kind.
Is it already in the runner image? A mystery shrouded in an enigma...

[dboreham]

It turns out that kind (version 0.3.0) is pre-installed in the GitHub Ubuntu runner. So are a random collection of other things, including amusingly the Haskell stack utility:

Run ls -l /usr/local/bin
total 939744
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root        4920 Aug  5 11:16 LICENSE.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         253 Sep  7 21:33 activate-global-python-argcomplete
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          37 Sep  7 21:08 aws -> /usr/local/aws-cli/v2/current/bin/aws
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          47 Sep  7 21:08 aws_completer -> /usr/local/aws-cli/v2/current/bin/aws_completer
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    56039736 Sep  7 21:07 azcopy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          21 Sep  7 21:07 azcopy10 -> /usr/local/bin/azcopy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          47 Sep  7 21:23 bazel -> ../lib/node_modules/@bazel/bazelisk/bazelisk.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          47 Sep  7 21:23 bazelisk -> ../lib/node_modules/@bazel/bazelisk/bazelisk.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    86037388 Sep  7 21:08 bicep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         556 Sep  7 21:26 bin-proxy
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    17169312 Feb 24  2025 ccmake
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    17241856 Feb 24  2025 cmake
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    32806896 Feb 24  2025 cmake-gui
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         560 Sep  7 21:26 commander
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         552 Sep  7 21:26 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          45 Sep  7 21:22 corepack -> ../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/corepack.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    17737536 Feb 24  2025 cpack
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    18771296 Feb 24  2025 ctest
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         542 Sep  7 21:26 dotenv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         554 Sep  7 21:26 fastlane
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          35 Sep  7 21:23 grunt -> ../lib/node_modules/grunt/bin/grunt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          36 Sep  7 21:23 gulp -> ../lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    60010680 Sep  7 21:20 helm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         566 Sep  7 21:25 httpclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         560 Sep  7 21:26 jmespath.rb
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    11055553 Sep  7 21:20 kind
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    14586008 Sep  7 21:21 kustomize
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          37 Sep  7 21:23 lerna -> ../lib/node_modules/lerna/dist/cli.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         558 Sep  7 21:26 match_file
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root   132766301 Sep  7 21:21 minikube
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          27 Sep  7 21:23 n -> ../lib/node_modules/n/bin/n
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          40 Sep  7 21:23 newman -> ../lib/node_modules/newman/bin/newman.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root      290928 Jul 10 20:59 ninja
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    97607264 Sep  7 21:22 node
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          21 Sep  7 21:23 now -> /usr/local/bin/vercel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          38 Sep  7 21:22 npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          38 Sep  7 21:22 npx -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root    42033323 Aug  5 11:16 packer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          37 Sep  7 21:23 parcel -> ../lib/node_modules/parcel/lib/bin.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     3296362 Sep  7 21:24 phpunit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         206 Sep  7 21:33 pipx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  76406968 Sep  4 11:42 pulumi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker       245 Sep  4 11:45 pulumi-analyzer-policy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker      1901 Sep  4 11:45 pulumi-analyzer-policy-python
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  28041400 Aug  6 13:24 pulumi-language-dotnet
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  31523000 Sep  4 11:42 pulumi-language-go
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  28172472 Jul 31 10:46 pulumi-language-java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  28528824 Sep  4 11:42 pulumi-language-nodejs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  28561592 Sep  4 11:42 pulumi-language-python
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker     11196 Sep  4 11:45 pulumi-language-python-exec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker  30826680 Sep  4 08:23 pulumi-language-yaml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker       238 Sep  4 11:45 pulumi-resource-pulumi-nodejs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker      2270 Sep  4 11:45 pulumi-resource-pulumi-python
-rwxr-xr-x 1 runner docker   6818384 Jul 25  2022 pulumi-watch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         263 Sep  7 21:33 python-argcomplete-check-easy-install-script
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     1106104 Sep  7 21:34 pzstd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         246 Sep  7 21:33 register-python-argcomplete
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         540 Sep  7 21:25 rougify
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          38 Sep  7 21:08 sam -> /usr/local/aws-sam-cli/current/bin/sam
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          58 Sep  7 21:08 session-manager-plugin -> /usr/local/sessionmanagerplugin/bin/session-manager-plugin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root   root    93368144 Sep  7 21:19 stack
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          30 Sep  7 21:10 swift -> /usr/share/swift/usr/bin/swift
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          31 Sep  7 21:10 swiftc -> /usr/share/swift/usr/bin/swiftc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         608 Sep  7 21:25 terminal-notifier
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          38 Sep  7 21:23 tsc -> ../lib/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          43 Sep  7 21:23 tsserver -> ../lib/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsserver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          19 Sep  7 21:34 unzstd -> /usr/local/bin/zstd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         219 Sep  7 21:33 userpath
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          28 Sep  7 21:26 vcpkg -> /usr/local/share/vcpkg/vcpkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          42 Sep  7 21:23 webpack -> ../lib/node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          42 Sep  7 21:23 webpack-cli -> ../lib/node_modules/webpack-cli/bin/cli.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         546 Sep  7 21:25 ww
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         560 Sep  7 21:25 xcodeproj
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         554 Sep  7 21:25 xcpretty
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         656 Sep  7 21:25 xcpretty-travis-formatter
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          36 Sep  7 21:23 yarn -> ../lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn.js
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          36 Sep  7 21:23 yarnpkg -> ../lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn.js
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root     1283088 Sep  7 21:34 zstd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          19 Sep  7 21:34 zstdcat -> /usr/local/bin/zstd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        3869 Sep  7 21:34 zstdgrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root   root         197 Sep  7 21:34 zstdless
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root          19 Sep  7 21:34 zstdmt -> /usr/local/bin/zstd

[dboreham]

Added a precautionary note on this in #117