`kind` and `k3d` are great but I don't think their aimed at being a developer friendly cluster from what I understand. They both require a lot of tweaking and setup to make them look like their a managed kube cluster (LB, storage, ingresses, etc). I wish there was something that could create a kube cluster that:

    1. sets up automatic port forwards to my host system
    2. handles ingresses by binding port :80 on my system
    3. provisions PVs for you when you create PVCs and respects retention policies 
    4. Allows you to select from a monitoring stack and only require that you supply configurations for dashboards/alerts that can be 1:1 applicable to production so devs can debug dashboards/alerts locally. 

`kind` is targeting itself as being "a real kubernetes implementation"

`k3d` is targeting itself as being Rancher's kubernetes implementation so if you buy into all of the Rancher tooling it'd be a great option.