Microsoft ACS and AKS
Similar to what we said about ECS, we can claim the same for Microsoft’s ACS. It is a simple container orchestration service that makes sense if you are already heavily invested in the Azure ecosystem. I should say the same as I have pointed out for Amazon ECS: if you buy into ACS, then you lock yourself into the offerings of Microsoft. It will not be easy to move your containerized applications from ACS to any other platform or cloud.
ACS is Microsoft’s container service, which supports multiple orchestrators such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Mesos DC/OS. With Kubernetes becoming more and more popular, the focus of Microsoft has clearly shifted to that orchestrator. Microsoft has even rebranded its service and called it Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in order to put the focus on Kubernetes.
AKS manages a hosted Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or DC/OS environment in Azure for you so that you can concentrate on the applications that you want...
