Kind is explicitly not for production workloads[0]:

  Non-Goals: Being “production workload ready” - kind is meant to be used:

    for testing Kubernetes itself
    for testing against Kubernetes (EG in CI on Travis, Circle, etc.)
    for “local” clusters on developer machines
    NOT to host workloads serving user traffic etc.

K3s seems happy to support production workloads. It's a single binary and gets you a cluster in one command:

  curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -
  sudo kubectl get nodes

Personally, I use both Kind and k3s. Kind is great for running locally and k3s is awesome for single-node kubernetes on a vps.

[0] - https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/contributing/1.0-roadmap/#non-...