do not pollute global kubeconfig when creating a dev setup#388
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Summary
The
k bind dev createcommand already spits out 2 kubeconfig files. It is unnecessary for it to also modify my fallback system-wide kubeconfig. This happens by "accident" when runningkind create clusterwithout an explicit kubeconfig path.This PR changes the call to kind and explicitly configures the desired kubeconfig path, so kind will not touch my ~/.kube/config anymore (me personally, I kind of rely on it being empty and defaulting to localhost:8080 for some other automation; I also hate it when I run such a command with a KUBECONFIG variable set and accidentally overwrite it with a kind kubeconfig).
What Type of PR Is This?
/kind cleanup
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