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Cloud containers

Cloud containers

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Cloud containers

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- [Narrator] Cloud providers offer a simple way to get started with containers and provide a good option for hosting your container infrastructure. For the sake of time, we'll focus on Amazon AWS and Google Cloud, but I'd like to mention that Microsoft Azure offers a robust hosted container solution as well called Azure Kubernetes service. One thing these cloud services have in common is that they're all based on the Kubernetes platform. Docker Swarm, Mesos and other orchestration tools can be self-hosted using these cloud providers, but Kubernetes is really the dominant player for integrated hosting solutions. I find the container offerings from AWS can be a little confusing, so let's start there. There are three main container related services in AWS for Kubernetes. Elastic Container Service or ECS, Elastic Kubernetes Service or EKS, and AWS Fargate. ECS and EKS are the two that can get a bit confusing. Think of…

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