Hosted platforms
There are several options available for hosted Kubernetes in the cloud. These Platforms as a service (PaaS) can provide a stable operating model as you push towards production. Here's an overview of the major PaaSes provided by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Amazon Web Services
Elastic Container Service (ECS) has just been launched as of the time of this chapter's writing. AWS is preparing a networking plugin to differentiate itself from other offerings, called the vpc-cni. This allows for pod networking in Kubernetes to use Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) on AWS. With ECS, you do have to pay for manager nodes, which is a different path to that taken by Microsoft and Google. ECS' startup procedure is also currently more complex and doesn't have single-command creation via the CLI.
Microsoft Azure
The Azure Container Service is the second longest running hosted Kubernetes service in the cloud after the Google Kubernetes Engine. You can use Azure templates and the Resource Manager...
