From 17cf5a7506f5d511b70ff8ad8eab240048c41e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Elder
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Participation in the Kubernetes community is governed by the [Kubernetes Code of
[go]: https://golang.org/
+[go-supported]: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy
[docker]: https://www.docker.com/
[community page]: http://kubernetes.io/community/
[Kubernetes Code of Conduct]: code-of-conduct.md
diff --git a/site/content/_index.md b/site/content/_index.md
index 432a4f82..5ae09c67 100644
--- a/site/content/_index.md
+++ b/site/content/_index.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
[kind] is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container "nodes".
kind is primarily designed for testing Kubernetes 1.11+, initially targeting the [conformance tests].
-If you have [go] and [docker] installed `GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.4.0 && kind create cluster` is all you need!
+If you have [go] ([1.11+][go-supported]) and [docker] installed `GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.4.0 && kind create cluster` is all you need!
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ Participation in the Kubernetes community is governed by the [Kubernetes Code of
[kind]: https://sigs.k8s.io/kind
[go]: https://golang.org/
+[go-supported]: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy
[docker]: https://www.docker.com/
[community page]: http://kubernetes.io/community/
[Kubernetes Code of Conduct]: code-of-conduct.md
diff --git a/site/content/docs/user/quick-start.md b/site/content/docs/user/quick-start.md
index fcb70ee7..7ab6749c 100644
--- a/site/content/docs/user/quick-start.md
+++ b/site/content/docs/user/quick-start.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ This guide covers getting started with the `kind` command.
You can either install kind with `GO111MODULE="on" go get sigs.k8s.io/kind@v0.4.0` or clone this repo
and run `make build` from the repository.
-**NOTE**: please use the latest go to do this, ideally go 1.12.7 or greater.
+**NOTE**: please use the latest Go to do this, ideally go 1.12.7 or greater.
+A version of Go officially [supported upstream][go-supported] by the Go project must be used.
This will put `kind` in `$(go env GOPATH)/bin`. You may need to add that directory to your `$PATH` as
shown [here](https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH) if you encounter the error
@@ -388,6 +389,7 @@ The structure of the logs will look more or less like this:
The logs contain information about the Docker host, the containers running
kind, the Kubernetes cluster itself, etc.
+[go-supported]: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy
[known issues]: /docs/user/known-issues
[node image]: /docs/design/node-image
[base image]: /docs/design/base-image