diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index f41625ad9..1b40a2a77 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ filegroup(
 """,
 )
 
+## Install 'kind', for creating kubernetes-in-docker clusters
+go_repository(
+    name = "io_kubernetes_sigs_kind",
+    commit = "35d67a6310dd76e7737c44ebb6164fc757e1f919",
+    importpath = "sigs.k8s.io/kind",
+)
+
 ## Install buildozer, for mass-editing BUILD files
 http_file(
     name = "buildozer_darwin",
diff --git a/docs/devel/end-to-end-tests.rst b/docs/devel/end-to-end-tests.rst
index c3bf226fc..a86448c45 100644
--- a/docs/devel/end-to-end-tests.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/end-to-end-tests.rst
@@ -15,34 +15,23 @@ Requirements
 Currently, a number of tools **must** be installed on your machine in order to
 run the tests:
 
+* ``bazel`` - As with all other development, Bazel is required to actually
+  build the project as well as end-to-end test framework. Bazel will also
+  retrieve appropriate versions of any other dependencies depending on what
+  'target' you choose to run.
+
 * ``docker`` - We provision a whole Kubernetes cluster within Docker, and so
   an up to date version of Docker must be installed. The oldest Docker version
   we have tested is 17.09.
 
-* kind_ - This
-  tool is responsible for actually building and starting the Kubernetes cluster
-  used during tests.
-
-* helm_ - A minimum version 2.10 is required.
-
 * ``kubectl`` - If you are running the tests on Linux, this step is
   technically not required. For non-Linux hosts (i.e. OSX), you will need to
   ensure you have a relatively new version of kubectl available on your PATH.
 
-* ``golang`` - We require golang to build cert-manager and various test
-  related components. You should use at least go version 1.9, although we
-  currently build with go 1.11 in our own CI.
-
 * An internet connection - tests require access to DNS, and optionally
   Cloudflare APIs (if a Cloudflare API token is provided).
 
-Docker, helm and kubectl should be installed through your preferred means.
-
-``kind`` can be installed like so:
-
-.. code-block:: shell
-
-   go install github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind
+Bazel, Docker and Kubectl should be installed through your preferred means.
 
 Run end-to-end tests
 ====================
@@ -53,8 +42,5 @@ You can run the end-to-end tests by executing the following:
 
    ./hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh
 
-The full suite may take up to 20 minutes to run.
+The full suite may take up to 10 minutes to run.
 You can monitor output of this command to track progress.
-
-.. _kind: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/kind
-.. _helm: https://github.com/helm/helm
diff --git a/hack/bin/BUILD.bazel b/hack/bin/BUILD.bazel
index 522ce48c8..159918f51 100644
--- a/hack/bin/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/hack/bin/BUILD.bazel
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ genrule(
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
 
+genrule(
+    name = "fetch_kind",
+    srcs = ["@io_kubernetes_sigs_kind//:kind"],
+    outs = ["kind"],
+    cmd = "cp $(SRCS) $@",
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
+
 config_setting(
     name = "k8",
     values = {"host_cpu": "k8"},
diff --git a/hack/ci/lib/cluster_create.sh b/hack/ci/lib/cluster_create.sh
index 5f9522b2c..c031a0197 100755
--- a/hack/ci/lib/cluster_create.sh
+++ b/hack/ci/lib/cluster_create.sh
@@ -21,10 +21,14 @@ set -o pipefail
 SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")
 source "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/lib.sh"
 
+# build 'kind'
+bazel build //hack/bin:kind
+KIND="$(bazel info bazel-genfiles)/hack/bin/kind"
+
 # deploy_kind will deploy a kubernetes-in-docker cluster
 deploy_kind() {
     # create the kind cluster
-    kind create cluster \
+    "${KIND}" create cluster \
         --name="${KIND_CLUSTER_NAME}" \
         --image="${KIND_IMAGE}" \
         --config "${REPO_ROOT}"/test/fixtures/kind-config.yaml
diff --git a/hack/ci/lib/cluster_destroy.sh b/hack/ci/lib/cluster_destroy.sh
index b373b88a5..c7d203317 100755
--- a/hack/ci/lib/cluster_destroy.sh
+++ b/hack/ci/lib/cluster_destroy.sh
@@ -21,4 +21,8 @@ set -o pipefail
 SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")
 source "${SCRIPT_ROOT}/lib.sh"
 
-kind delete cluster --name="${KIND_CLUSTER_NAME}"
+# build 'kind'
+bazel build //hack/bin:kind
+KIND="$(bazel info bazel-genfiles)/hack/bin/kind"
+
+"${KIND}" delete cluster --name="${KIND_CLUSTER_NAME}"
diff --git a/hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh b/hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh
index 4e2f94554..1f964c19e 100755
--- a/hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh
+++ b/hack/ci/run-e2e-kind.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # This script will provision an end-to-end testing environment using 'kind'
 # (kubernetes-in-docker).
 #
-# It requires 'kind', 'helm', 'kubectl' and 'docker' to be installed.
+# It requires kubectl, docker and bazel to be installed.
 # kubectl will be automatically installed if not found when on linux
 
 set -o errexit